M.L. Stedman Quotes

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

The law's the law, but people are people.

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

How can I go out there and create value?

Every end is the beginning of something else.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.