As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

Just remain in the center

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.