Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

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.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I’m perpetually lonely.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

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 think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.