When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

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

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

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

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

I always entertain great hopes.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

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?

Everybody likes a compliment.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.