Billy Graham Quotes

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

I've been through a lot. You can't get too high, you can't get too low.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

A little to our astonishment we find that we are still here and that we can still eat and sleep and work and smile. We can deal with an open crisis; we could not fight a shadow.

Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart.

There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

You're going to go through ups; you're going to go through downs. But staying steady is most important, and being able to bounce back is also very important.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.

Little obstacles, if they don't go my way, I really don't even get down. I've been through so much.