Matthew Henry Quotes

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.