God’s desire is that we excel.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I have always believed in God.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Our God is a forgiving God.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.