Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

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

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

My mother insisted that her children read.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

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’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.