What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

Keep shining, keep dreaming, keep being good to people, and God will take care of the persecutors. He'll deal with the critics, the jealous people, the opposition. People can't stop your destiny. The blessing on your life is greater than any force that's trying to hold you back.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

But if you look to your Maker, you'll find enough power to kill a thousand Slaters... - Dr. John Francis

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.