“Storms make oaks take deeper root.”
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
“When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.”
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
“Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.”