Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I think and that is all that I am.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

God’s first creature, which was light.

You just have to have a simple faith.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.