Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Always take a job that is too big for you.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one’s best.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.