"People who hope never know what's coming next.  They expect it is going to be good, because God is good.  Even when disasters occur, people of hope look for how God will use evil for good."  -Eugene Peterson

"The sun is just rising and it shows a lot of the dirtiest humanity ever was seen since the Creation."- Kit Belknap, pioneer woman on the Oregon trail.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

Insist upon yourself; never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
      - Moliere