Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

I will never retire unless I have to.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I answer only to God.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

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

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.