“Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.” - St. Teresa of Avila

“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.” - Johnny Cash

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” - Theodore Roosevelt

"I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, 'By the grace of God I am what I am.'" - John Newton

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” - Ronald Reagan

“Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.” - Carlos Santana

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.” - Douglas Adams

“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'” - G. K. Chesterton

“I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoyed than be a success at something I hate.” - George Burns

"How you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?" - Mother Teresa

“My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.” - Billy Graham

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears” - Rudyard Kipling

“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.” - Benjamin Franklin

“I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.” - Red Skelton

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” - Herbert Spencer

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Gandhi

"I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love." - Viktor Frankl

"God does not need to make any fuss about his glory. He is glorious. He simply needs to show Himself as he is, he simply needs to reveal Himself. That is what he does in man, his creature, in whom he wants to be reflected." - Karl Barth

"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'" - Ray Charles

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." - C. S. Lewis

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - Augustine

"All religion ever made of me /Was just a sinner with a stone tied to my feet /It never set me free /It's gotta be More like falling in love..." ♫ - Jason Gray

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can." - Will Rogers

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"We are told that it is perfectly legitimate for believers to suffer grief. Our Lord Himself was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Though grief may reach to the roots of our souls, it must not result in bitterness. Grief is a legitimate emotion, at times even a virtue, but there must be no place in the soul for bitterness." - R.C. Sproul

"It's never just a game when you're winning." - George Carlin

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa