Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

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

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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

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

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

God’s first creature, which was light.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

I know love is the answer.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

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.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

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.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?