Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

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.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.