Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

When suffering hits us broadside, it's bound to shake our faith a little—just as if we were driving across a high bridge in a compact car and got hit by a great gust of wind. You have to make sure you have both hands on the wheel! But trials are also meant to waken us to the truth of Daniel 11:32 (ESV), where it says, "The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.