All Saints have passed through much tribulation and temptation, and have profited thereby. And they who endured not temptation became reprobate and fell away. There is no position so sacred, no place so secret, that it is without temptations and adversities.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.

Even if things only take such a good turn in one of a thousand cases, my explanation continues, who can guarantee that in your case it will not happen one day, sooner or later? But in the first place, you have to live to see the day on which it may happen, so you have to survive in order to see that day dawn, and from now on the responsibility for survival does not leave you.

know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible." Is

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

A few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

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

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

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