“Whatever you gain through self promotion you’ll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.”

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don’t remain a novice.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

Don’t let your past dictate your future.

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Passion produces the best discipline.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

Treat gain and loss the same.’ Don’t be Intimidated. Don’t make a Big Deal of anything – just accept things as they come to you.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.