“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
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It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.
Victoria Pendleton
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.