There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Habakkuk 3:19 says that the way we develop hind's feet (a hind is an animal that can climb mountains swiftly) is "to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon" the "high places [of trouble, suffering or responsibility]!" The way God helps us make spiritual progress is by being with us to strengthen and encourage us to "keep on keeping on" in rough times. It's easy to quit; it takes faith to go through.

One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things.

God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

When we don't have anyone else, we develop a deep relationship with God that will carry us through anything life brings our way. The

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success.

Don't make the mistake of letting your mistakes cause you to give up.

Do you know how God tests our faithfulness? He assigns us to do something for a period of time that we don't want to do, something that is not fun o exciting, something that may require us to submit to someone else's authority for a while, and He'll tell us in our heart, "Just be faithful." For