A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life's storms rage, you do.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

He looked in humiliation, anger, wariness and misery at Connie. "Ma lass!" he said. "The world's goin' to put salt on thy tail." "Not if we don't let it," she said.

God's role is not to make our lives easier, to make the hard things go away, or to do them for us. God's role is to give us the vision to know what we need to do, to bless us with the qualities of soul that we will need in order to do them ourselves, no matter how hard they may be, and to accompany us on that journey.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on.

More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.