“If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows.” 
― Suzy Kassem

“All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.” 
― Barbara Cameron

“Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.” 
― Stacey T. Hunt

“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.” 
― R.C. Sproul

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. ” 
― John Piper

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.” 
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!” 
― Israelmore Ayivor

“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.” 
― R.C. Sproul