Beth Moore Quotes

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.