We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I have always believed in God.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

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

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I worked my face off.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.