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.‘

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

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

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

The only way round is through.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.