John Bytheway Quotes

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

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.

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

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

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.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain ... For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And no by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But, westward, look, the land is bright.

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.

Imagine if you grew up in a place and the team was bad for a long time and there's almost like a pride in being able to stay here and stick it out, knowing that you're going to get to where you promised yourself and you've been promised at some point.

'Darkest Before Dawn,' the short film, is basically the film of a man who faces the darkness when his back is against the wall and just about how miracles come in all forms, and even in your darkest times, it comes.

You have to go through some things to get to where you want to go.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.