There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

My future is righteousness.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.