Sam Childers Quotes

#1. As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Sam Childers

#2. I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Sam Childers

#3. I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Sam Childers

#4. Lack of insight into each other's private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Woody Allen

#6. Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Sam Childers

#7. 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.

Sam Childers

#8. Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

Michael Beckwith

#9. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Sam Childers

#11. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.

Donna K. Childree

#12. All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.

Sam Childers

#13. Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

Sam Childers

#14. Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

Rhys Darby

#15. Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Mark Sanford

#16. This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

Langston Hughes

#17. When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Honore De Balzac

#18. Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

Sam Childers

#19. I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

Sam Childers