Rick Danko Quotes

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Don’t kneel to me. Kneel only to God and thank Him for your freedom

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

I can't stand whining.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

I fear no one; beg from no one except my God to whom I submit and from whom I receive all bounties. My Prophet is my grandfather; my Imam is my father and my religion is sincerity and justice

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

It is not befitting for a believing man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger, to have any option about their decision

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.