Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
God expects but one thing of you and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
I am in love - and my God it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already you are wasting your life.
The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself you have nothing to worry about.
If you want to be original just try being yourself because God has never made two people exactly alike.
You're just left with yourself all the time whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you mate.
God has given you one face and you make yourself another.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go just focus on you and your future.