We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Get mad, then get over it.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

I believe in singing.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

My future is righteousness.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.