When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Where love is, there God is also.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.