“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
“My faith has strengthen. God has shown me through my son with Down syndrome to not take anything for granted. I'm more grateful.”
“My past has shaped me, that's true of anyone.”
“Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.”
“Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.”