“Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.”

“God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.”

“God can take the imploding mess of our lives and turn it around.”

“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”

“Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.”

“You see, the one thing the government and a lot of voters don't seem to understand is that you can't turn a failure into a success just by giving them a little “free” money. Creating programs for them. Failures can only become successes by hard work and shit.”