Joe Lhota Quotes

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

I think having the cancer allowed me to be able to freely talk about my faith.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.