When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I love imperfections.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!