I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Be happy. God gave you a breath to breathe every day. You don't need to be mad about nothin'.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
God will not forgive us if we fail.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.
I believe in God and his son, Jesus.
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
God looks after children, animals and idiots.
Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
We all make mistakes. God knows I've made more than anyone else I know.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Forgiveness is God's command.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt like I understood who Jesus was - it was more than just knowing about Him: I felt like He met me in that time and place.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.