“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.” 
― George Burns

“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.” 
― Steve Brown

“Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.” 
― Harshit Walia

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.” 
― Leo Tolstoy

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”
― Louie Giglio

“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.” 
― H.G. Wells

“But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.” 
― Michael Jackson