Danny Gokey Quotes

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, 'Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.