There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

God to me is love.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.