There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

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

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

All of my writing is God-given.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.