Thought for the day...

Finally brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Ephesians 6:10

If a map differs from the terrain, believe the terrain.

The more knowledge we possess of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. Churchill

Thoughts are things; powerful things, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for what you want.

When a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. Thomas Edison.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

 

One of the tricks of opportunity is that it has a sly habit of slipping in the back door and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize it.


One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.


Before success comes, man is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and perhaps some failure.


Analyze your failures and study them in search of knowledge that may lead to success. Convert them into stepping stones. (Also, don’t forget to analyze your success. Cook)


One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word impossible. He knows all the rules which will not work. Another weakness is the habit of measuring everything and everyone by their own impressions and beliefs.


Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our mind and these “magnets” attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

 

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Desire: The starting point of all achievement.

Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody and examined in a psychopathic hospital when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires or other direct physical means of communication.


If the thing you want is good and right and you believe in it, go ahead and do it.


Build your castles in the air, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreau


A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

 

The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

No one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.

Dream, then change those dreams to organized thought.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. Then the state of mind must be belief, not mere hope and wish.

No more effort is required to aim high, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

 

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only to obey. There is guidance for each of us and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Emerson

Adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent and transmutes it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

The emotions of faith, love and sex are the most powerful of all the emotions.

Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought.

 

Faith is the basis of all miracles and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science.

Faith is the element, the chemical which, when mixed with prayer, gives you direct communication with God.

Faith is the only agency through which the cosmic forces of God can be harnessed and used by man.

Faith is the only way you can please God.

Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

Somewhere in your makeup there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, will carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.