I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.
I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.
I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
God created man, but I could do better.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.
The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.
My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.
Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.
Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
