Top 80 Wilferd Peterson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.”

— Wilferd Peterson

52. “Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

55. “You hold in your hand the camel’s-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.”

— Wilferd Peterson

56. “Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.”

— Wilferd Peterson

57. “You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.”

— Wilferd Peterson

58. “As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.”

— Wilferd Peterson

59. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

60. “I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

62. “Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.”

— Wilferd Peterson

63. “Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.”

— Wilferd Peterson

64. “Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.”

— Wilferd Peterson

65. “It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.”

— Wilferd Peterson

66. “Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.”

— Wilferd Peterson

67. “Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.”

— Wilferd Peterson

68. “The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.”

— Wilferd Peterson

69. “It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

71. “It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...”

— Wilferd Peterson

72. “Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

74. “We can make these three dynamic words – “reverence for life” – a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. “The good person,” said Schweitzer, “is the friend of all living things.””

— Wilferd Peterson

75. “Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.”

— Wilferd Peterson

76. “Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

78. “Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.”

— Wilferd Peterson

79. “Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.”

— Wilferd Peterson

80. “Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man’s knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”

— Wilferd Peterson

81. “Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.”

— Wilferd Peterson

82. “He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.”

— Wilferd Peterson

83. “Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.”

— Wilferd Peterson

84. “Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

86. “In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God’s inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God’s inspiration.”

— Wilferd Peterson