“Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.”

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Service is a balm to both the spirit and the body.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God’s name.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony…We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.

When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially.

We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it.

God’s love is just like the sun, constant and shining for us all. And just as the earth rotates around the sun, it is the natural order for us to move away for a season, and then to return closer, but always within the appropriate time.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. … Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody’s needs at every level.

I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.

Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we’re stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead.

When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it’s time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.

There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.