Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.