But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

When we are properly prepared and the time is right, God can shift seasons very quickly. Overnight, it seems, He transforms dry times into rivers, barrenness into fruitfulness and makes a way where there is no way. Timing is a factor; but when it's right, God causes the shift, and the chronos changes into kairos. Allow this truth to bring faith and encouragement into your situation.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.