The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Winning starts with beginning.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Inch by inch, it’s a cinch.
I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you’re undergoing.
Now – find God’s dream for your life and go all out for it!
You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don’t know how many apples are in a seed.
God’s forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me – and I accept – a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God’s walk, work God’s work, fulfill God’s will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the ‘unworthiness of the sinner,’ and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.
Any analysis of ‘sin’ or ‘evil’ or ‘demonic influence’ or ‘negative thinking’ or ‘systemic evil’ or ‘antisocial behavior’ that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.
What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person’s hunger for glory.
To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image – from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord’s perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.