“Excuses prologue productivity and blessings from the work of your hands. So when you make an excuse the only person you're hurting is you.”

“How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.”

“If I am judging then I am not loving. How can I love if I judge? I won't be able to love if all I do is judge. So that means LESS judging and MORE loving.”

“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.”

“Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.”

“One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,You promised me Lord,that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

“Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.”