For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.