Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It’s not so strange. Where there’s still life, there’s still hope. What happens is up to God.
The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.
(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person’s face. When you forgive, it’s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people’s throats.
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
It was all in His hands now – as it had always been.
All I want to tell young people is that you’re not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up you fight to the finish.
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, ‘Get me home alive, God, and I’ll seek you and serve you.’ I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I’d made to God.