About Louis Zamperini: Louis Silvie is the subject of two biographies and the 2014 film Unbroken.
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.
The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it's sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an then goes back to his old life of bars and chasing ...
I was raised to face any challenge.
God knew my needs and took care accordingly.
(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had. I'm not sure what I expected; perhaps my life or ...
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.
(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day...
When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
