It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you're attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There's no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body that gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsemane and he didn't want you to be alone ... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you.

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

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.

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome.