I believed in, I don't want to call it miracles, but God has a way of making things work out.
One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.
If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn't, and by God's grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot.
Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
San Diego walked away with just a scratch.
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
God has blessed me on a lot of levels. Have I worked for it? Absolutely. But it still takes that blessing.
You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
