Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

God helps those who help themselves.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

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

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

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.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

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.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.