When God calls people to do something, their initial response is almost always fear. If there is a challenge in front of you, a course of action that could cause you to grow and that would be helpful to people around you, but you find yourself scared about it, there's a real good chance that God is in that challenge.

Not knowing doesn't mandate anxiety; rather, it instills confidence, and confidence is crucial to good performance.

Yet in these and the like distresses doth the word of God, by its divine power and efficacy, break through all interposing difficulties, all dark and discouraging circumstances, supporting, refreshing, and comforting such poor distressed sufferers, yea, commonly filling them under overwhelming calamities with "joy unspeakable and full of glory." Though

God and the doctor we like adore, But only when in danger, not before.

That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.

Our army was still out of reach on the remote frontiers, and could not be withdrawn, during midwinter, in time for this military operation. Indeed, the General had never suggested such a withdrawal. He knew that had this been possible, the inhabitants on our distant frontiers would have been immediately exposed to the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians.

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.

Your faith, whatever it may be, is the greatest shelter of all.

If God is your pilot, do not fear any turbulence.

Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.