When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

Winds of adversity may have blown through your life. Your world may be falling apart. But if you will look closely enough, you'll see the light of God's faithfulness shining through the debris.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.