Damon Dash Quotes

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

On my back, I have the cross and angel wings: rise above it, no matter what life throws at you. And also, you know, Jesus rose from the grave.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.