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Before God can lift you up, He will first knock you down. Go through it, I have been there many times. The most interesting part is when you look back and see how far He has brought you, you can't afford not to get up and keep on moving.

~ Patience Johnson

If you permit God to test you at the beginning, you will stand every trial for a long time. Don't plan to drive a Mercedes jeep as a boy and ride a bicycle in your adult age. Every trial given to you while you are young is made to prepare you for your old, age so that you can proclaim; I was young and now I am old, I have never seen the righteousness forsaken nor their children begging for bread.

~ Patience Johnson

No matter how holy you are, holiness does not take satan to hell, it just makes you a better person. Holiness makes you an instrument in the hand of God but your righteousness does not kill the devil.

~ Patience Johnson

Never let your fears ever stop you from living your life

~ Patience Johnson

I have tried a lot of things in my life minus one thing ..and that is doubting God. I am so sure of Him that I know that whenever I surrender He kicks in and takes over.

~ Patience Johnson

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!

~ Avijeet Das

Life isn't about living the longest, it's about living the most.

~ Cory Groshek

When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?

~ Simone Milasas

If you don't build your dreams, regret will build your nightmares.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Heat makes things expand, that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you, anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Any man can grow a moustache and a beard! And this does not make him a man! What it takes to be a man is to help a needy person, stand up for the innocent, and lead one's life in the most courteous, dignified and sophisticated way possible to a man.

~ Avijeet Das

These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life.

~ Tilly Dunn

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never ever stop dreaming. You will make it big one day. What is life without our struggles? Our struggles give us insight and depth into life.

~ Avijeet Das

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo