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.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

I’m a Christian by choice.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Lord, help my poor soul.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.