Benjamin Franklin Quotes

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

Pray that we can come out alive.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Life has to be dangerous.

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

God helps those who fear Him.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.