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The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.
There's this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That's nonsense.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.
The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
My goal is for 300 people to hear the wisdom that God gives my heart for them to become millionaires for the sake of the Kingdom of God
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!
But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures
Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.
The anointing, which is God's power, comes on me... I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. From the cancer, the pain is gone.
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'