Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God’s refusals.
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear.
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God’s blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what’s right about it and build on that.
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you’ll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you’ll find a friendship.
Begin where you are. Begin now.
It is a fact that you project what you are.
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
God loves you. God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.
Take a new look at your present “impossible.” Consider positive ways to handle it.
Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.