Tim Meadows Quotes

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

The church is in the hope business.