Quotes from Wilferd Peterson

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

Background for Humans

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress