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Finally, he lifted his head slowly, got up and walked to the door. Then he turned around, came back, laid his hand on my shoulder and said, 'My boy, you will need much courage if you remain steadfast in carrying out your purpose in life. But remember, when difficulties overtake you, the common people have common sense. Adversity will develop it.
- Napoleon Hill
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- William Hazlitt
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Gary and Betsy Ricucci point out, "Our Lord has sovereignly ordained that our refining process take place as we go through difficulties, not around them. The Bible is filled with examples of those who overcame as they passed through the desert, the Red Sea, the fiery furnace and ultimately the cross. God doesn't protect Christians from their problems—he helps them walk victoriously through their problems."
- Gary Thomas
I think we need the same attitude with our marriage. All of us experience certain things about our spouses that may be difficult for us to accept.
- Gary Thomas
in difficulties we need only have recourse to JESUS CHRIST, and beg his grace; with that everything became easy.
- Brother Lawrence
In the beginning of the spiritual life, we ought to be faithful in doing our duty and denying ourselves. After that, unspeakable pleasures followed. In difficulties we only need to turn to Jesus Christ and beg His grace, and then everything became easy.
- Brother Lawrence
Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
- Humphrey Bogart
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
- Henry B. Eyring
You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
- Oprah Winfrey
We have discovered in these psalms beautiful lines, piercing insights, dazzling truths, stimulating words. We have found that the world in which these psalms are sung is a world of adventure and challenge, of ardor and meaning. We have realized that while there are certainly difficulties in the way of faith, it cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called dull.
- Eugene Peterson