In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

Mountains gave her hope for life's problems...'Cause they have an uphill climb on one side and a downward slide on the other. No matter what kind of problem you have...you could always count on there being a downhill side eventually.

that walking with Jesus is a lifelong journey. You don't see or understand everything at once. It comes in steps along the way.

Celebrate your mistakes.

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's form follows function, what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.