Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

With You I can attack a barrier, and with my God I can leap over a wall. Psalm 18:29

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another—if we seek it.

The Bible teaches that we are to be patient in suffering. Tears become telescopes to heaven, bringing eternity a little closer.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I am not going to die; I'm going home like a shooting star.

My God, how good Thou art! How well dost Thou suit the trial to our strength!

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

She did it because she was desperate, and so she listened to her heart. In my experience, there is a lot to be said for desperation—not exactly a bright side, but something expressed in words for which "God" could be considered an acronym: gifts of desperation.