Some are devoured by beasts, some by fire, while some perish by shipwreck or by drowning, so that their bodies decay into liquid. Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way.
• I’m amazing
• I’ve been marvelously made
• I’m a masterpiece
• I walked the streets of Babylon
• I rolled in its mire
• I was easy to seduce
• I loved my own undoing
When life tries to push you down, take your health, squash your dreams, you have to get back up again. Outlast what’s trying to defeat you. The power in you is greater than any power that’s trying to stop you.
Hell, which also is called a lake of fire and brimstone, will be material fire, and will torment the bodies of the damned.
A mark of maturity is when you can be happy even when things aren’t going your way.
But remember, as God carries you, you’re also going to come into these moments of favor where He catapults you ahead, cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
But who can explain the strange properties of fire itself, which blackens everything it burns, discolors almost all it touches and feeds upon, and turns blazing fuel into grimy cinders?
Underneath those ashes, an ember is still alive. All you have to do is stir it up.
Extremes of heat and cold, storms, floods, lightning, thunder, hail, earthquakes, houses falling; from the stumbling of horses; from poisons in fruits, water, air, animals; from painful or deadly bites of animals
At the start of the day, you need to set your mind for victory.
Fraud, theft, robbery, murders, parricides, cruelty, ferocity, wickedness, insolence, impudence, shamelessness, fornications, adulteries, incests?
Make up your mind that no matter what people do, no matter what they say, how they treat you, they’re not going to steal your joy.
There are histories of numberless wars, both before the building of Rome and since its rise and the extension of its dominion.
That’s a lot of emotional energy that’s not doing any good.
We all face situations that look too big: the opposition too strong, the sickness too bad. And therefore, it were truer to say that we shall always be miserable than that we can some time be happy.
We try to eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, take vitamins. That’s all important. But what if a man suffers from curvature of the spine to such an extent that his hands reach the ground, and he goes upon all-fours like a quadruped?