O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.

Don't let the fear of what might be rob you of the promise of what can.

I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In