Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

Great faith must have great trials.

I feel it’s okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don’t stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

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.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

As you go in there, you keep winning; after you've had a loss or two, people start to humanize you.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

In order to have a testimony, you have to have a test.

The word tells us that trials will come ahead and we'll be ridiculed more for our faith. So if you're going to go in as a believer thinking that everything is going to be smooth, you're probably not in the right mind-set. It's going to be tough at times, and has been for me personally.

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.