Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

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.‘

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Act, and God will act.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.