People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

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.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I’m not a bad person.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

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.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.