The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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.

In every parting there is an image of death.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

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

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

What we live by we die by.

Life is our dictionary.

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.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Honesty is the best policy.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

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

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A promise must never be broken.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.