One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.

The biggest trees look intimidating until you swing your axe.

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.

Your breaking point is often your blessing point.

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.