Lane Kiffin Quotes

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

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.

God doesn't put anyone someplace permanently. I am a living testimony to that.

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.

We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

They always win who side with God.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

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

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.