“The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.”

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Gods plan isn’t a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.

Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit…

Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Every moment of happiness was just a distraction from myself.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.