There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

She learned that women were braver than men. Braver and stronger. She learned that she herself could one day stretch open as wide as a window, and it would not kill her.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

No, Missy. Ain't nothing wrong with being afraid—that's only human. But we need to give our fear to Massa Jesus instead of letting our imaginations run off with it.

As I just told Miriam, we'll die a hundred times before the day finally comes if we give in to fear.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators, child. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift from Jesus called self-control!

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

I may not be gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. If — and only if— I equip myself with predetermined biblical procedures that I can rely on when I start to feel the great unglued coming on.

Yes, I am fully loved, fully accepted, and fully empowered to say no to my flesh. Speak that truth in the power He's given you. Believe that truth in the power He's given you. Live that truth in the power He's given you. That's how you tell your flesh no. That's how you live fully prepared in the fullness of God.

There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us. Let's state it

The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn't have a good plan for us.

Fear isn't something you can sweep up into a pile and discard. It isn't physical. It hovers and haunts us in the spiritual realm. It attacks us in the unseen.