Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

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.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

All men hate the nagging.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Children make your life important.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.