J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and 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.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Man is not made for defeat.

George, we lost 49 states but we didn’t lose our souls.