Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up.

It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for the aging.

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.