Alan Tomkins

“My priest friend Tom said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Tom Weston

“People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to. They can call you slow, lazy, too old. That’s all right. Just don’t answer to it. Answer to “victorious,” “talented,” “history maker.” If you’ll do this, I believe and declare, today is going to be a turning point. The bondages from the past are no longer going to have any effect on you.”
― Joel Osteen, Daily Readings from Think Better, Live Better: 90 Devotions to a Victorious Life

“Father, thank You that Your love is the real love that I need to change my life. Thank You that You sent Jesus as a sacrifice to take away my sins that I might receive Your love as a gift. I receive it now, and I believe I am the one whom You love. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
― Joel Osteen, Daily Readings from Next Level Thinking: 90 Devotions for a Successful and Abundant Life

“He flung off his stupor and began to think. He strove not to give way to emotion, but to stand face to face with circumstances. To look fortune in the face is the duty of every one not an idiot;”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs