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.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Bring them on.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Theology is unnecessary.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.