The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

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.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I am two with nature.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

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!

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Men must know their limitations.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.