Cornel West Quotes

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

What I know for sure is that we are all created with this phenomenal force inside of us that can have us withstand - that God never gives us more than we can handle.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

I would say my poise comes from my faith.

The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.

Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

My family inspires me, because they push me to be the best version of myself that I can be, and spirituality, because it brings more love into your life.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.

You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"