When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

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

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

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

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Christians are not limited to any church.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

All of my writing is God-given.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.