Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God.

Yes, disability is terribly difficult and chronic pain can eat away at your peace of mind.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying.

I had a big brother so I always wanted him to hang out with me, but he wouldn't. So I always did sports and I always really liked it, but I just was never good at it.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!