Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy.

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.