You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

One man with courage is a majority.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Freedom is not enough.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

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.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

God always has patience.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

I read the Bible every day.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

God is everywhere.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I’m a Christian by choice.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.