Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.