Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

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

I’ve learned never to say never.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I’m tender on the inside.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline 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.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.