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

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

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

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

God helps those who help themselves.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Compliment three people every day.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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

Where there is love there is life.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.