Yolanda King Quotes

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

I can't be angry at God. Look at all the love that he gave us. Look at the beautiful planet that he gave us.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am.

I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Love is the cheapest of religions.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?