Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

My message is that God is a good God.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.