Quotes from Glenn Beck

peace comes with forgiveness. And sometimes forgiveness must be earned—not from other men, but from our own hearts and spirits.

It is not time to dissolve the bands that connect us to one another, but it is time to dissolve the "political" bands that separate us from one another. . . . Let us start by doing what we've been trained for so long not to do: let us declare the causes that unite us.

You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it? Sometimes. And you still want it? Always... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be.

Every child could be an artist. Every child is an artist until a grown-up tells them they're not.

Marriage is sacred. And the Bible says that God hates divorce. He hates it because he wants better for you. He never intended for you to have a broken marriage of a broken home. He loves you.

If you're forcing and mandating people to act in a certain way, then it's not really "benevolence" or "charity"; it's effectively nothing more than tyranny, and tyranny never produces a well-functioning, happy society.

It was like he handed me a new life, and I happily stepped out of the past and into a present that felt very much like a brand-new beginning.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

In fact, our government has been all too eager to encourage the continued deterioration of the family structure by assuming more and more responsibilities that should be dealt with at home. That's particularly true when it comes to government schools.

In 2012 the NEA spent $18.1 million on political contributions (95 percent of it going to Democratic candidates) and another $5.9 million on lobbying. Without these payments it's very possible that politicians might finally stop pretending that ideas like tenure and seniority pay make sense for our kids.

As the motion picture finished—the first ever to be screened at the White House—President Wilson declared it a triumph. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was "like writing history with lightning," the president gushed. "And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

You finally did it! I suppose so. Though I don't really know what 'it' is. It is life, sweetie. Rich, abundant, thrilling life! You've embraced it... What he did to you was evil. But it struck me the other day that if you turn evil around, you're actually left with a pretty clear directive: live. And that's exactly what you're doing. You going to live. Really live.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

What has changed in modern times, however, is that the media, the so-called fourth estate made up of America's best and brightest journalists, are no longer trusted. Sadly that leaves the American people with no one to rely on: not the politicians; not the media. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but political systems abhor a vacuum of trust even more. If we don't find someone to fill it, someone who can unify the country behind the truth, then that vacuum will be filled for us.

Don't you feel that your scarred heart was made whole the moment you gave your service to Christ?

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.