July 7

There is no circumstance in your life where God will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be. He understands all your problems, all your frustrations and disappointments. He sympathizes in your weaknesses. He loves you.

July 6

The head of a university hospital once said, “When a person becomes ill he should send for his minister, priest, or rabbi as he sends for his doctor.” That is to say, the sick may be helped in two ways: through the science of medicine and surgery, and through the effective use of faith and prayer.

July 5

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.

July 4

Winston Churchill once gave a talk to the boys of Harrow, his old school. He stressed the importance of believing they could win. “Never, never, never, never give in,” he told them. Four times he said “never.” Churchill gave those boys the basis of success: Never quit.

July 3

Thomas Edison is supposed to have made a curious remark which is fascinating: “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” That is to say, you are what you think and your life is determined by what goes on in your brain. The brain is the center of thought, memory, feeling, emotion, dreams, prayer, faith; in short, it is the creative and directing center of the entire person. The body may become old, feeble, suffer disability; but so long as the brain is clear and in working order, so long do you really live.

July 2

There is a spiritual giant within each of us telling us we need not remain enslaved by weakness or victimized by frustrating limitations. The giant within you is always struggling to burst his way out of the prison you have made for him. Why not set him free today?

July 1

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true—faith is believing that it will come true. Hope is wanting something so eagerly that, in spite of all evidence that you’re not going to get it, you go right on expecting it. And the remarkable thing is that this very act of hoping produces a strength of its own.