If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.

You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.