My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.