Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

I've had a couple breakdowns.

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.