It has taken me a long time to be able to look at a problem I’m having as a necessary spiritual lesson.

We focus a lot on how powerful our thoughts and actions are and in so doing, we overlook one of the most powerful killers of dreams — our words.

In our darkest hour it’s hard to see the end of our circumstance. All we can think of is our conditions worsening.

We have to have a vision for our life, for what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cherish it and hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we’ll never see our vision.

Like the biblical Job who said, “the thing I feared most has come upon me,” I, too, had thought myself to where I was.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by; this you will become.

When defeat overtakes a person, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of people do.

Letting our “sins and mistakes of yesterday” dominate our thinking today robs us of our present joy and our future happiness. It causes us to miss the real opportunity of TODAY!

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and a person can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles.