We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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.

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.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

Life loves the liver of it.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I just want to lobby for God.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

God always takes the simplest way.

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.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

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.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.