Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
God has no religion.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
God save us from people who mean well.
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
