“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

"Often His call is to follow in paths we would not have chosen." A.Carmichael

We can't always be strong. Sometimes we just have to let go... and watch our cherished hopes and dreams shatter, let go of the one we love more than anyone else, let go of everything, except for Jesus. But that letting go is probably the most painful step towards peace and healing that we will ever take. Yet...at the end of the darkness and pain, ( Read more... )

The little moments, the internal battles, the struggles and victories of the heart, of the ordinary, quiet, unknown life-- my life, these things can be some of the greatest things of all ( Read more... )

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. - Hosea Ballou ( Read more... )

"Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields...." ~Kahlil Gibran

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

"If you fall Seven times, Get up Eight."

"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me."

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” M. L. King

"Whatever dark tunnel we may be called upon to travel through, God has been there. Whatever deep waters seem about to drown us, He has traversed. Faith is not merely "feeling good about God" but a conscious choice, even in the utter absence of feelings or external encouragements, to obey His Word when He says, "Trust me- Elisabeth Elliot, On Asking ( Read more... )