To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!

The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.