If you’re facing a season of trials, don’t allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in...

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we’re filled with joy we’ll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by...

If you are enduring a cold season, don’t underestimate Christ can plant you right where you are at no matter how dirty, beat up, or worthless you may feel. Rest assured, He has strategically placed...

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don’t care to know before they surrender!

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you can live fully in the present. When you live in the present moment the greater you can build stepping stones for a brighter...

I’m convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And...

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking...

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won’t be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a...

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found...

I’ve played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It’s vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the...

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go? Hide or shine?

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in...

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether...

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You’ll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You’ll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small...

Heavenly Father, your ears are ever open to our prayers.Save us now!

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both

Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity. What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation...

With what we have been through, all the adversity, this feels good. Now we have to take what we’ve learned from this and take it on the road with us.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

The game isn’t big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

My main adversary is myself, … I must not take any risks. I must consolidate and make sure I finish the race.

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising...

Everything that I’ve ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of.

Adversities are opportunities for a daring life.