What a person thinks about determines what he is.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

the answers you look for are within you and around you

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.