We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

Nobody can give you happiness than yourself.

Soul power supersedes mind power.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.