People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

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.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.