The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Heaven means to be one with God.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

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

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Love is the one wild card.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

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

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

All of my writing is God-given.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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