Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

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.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

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

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.