“God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.”

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.