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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"Doing life without God is not doing life."
Faith
"In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light."
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"If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not."
Truth
"Love in the service of self is greed in disguise."
Love
"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Family
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
Ethics
"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."
Character
"Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless."
Faith
"Too often it's about what stands before us, not what stands within us."
Truth
"I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don't even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God's plans undo what I've done that's undoing me."
Faith
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