So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I don’t regret anything.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

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

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

You can be happy where you are.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

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.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Never take anything for granted.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I came up from a difficult background.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

God always has patience.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.