1. Lord Kelvin When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

2. Take those road hazards - the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest - as evidence that you're on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry. Joni Eareckson Tada

3. When you are at the end of your rope, God is there to catch you - but not before. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941-)

4. There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Luce (1903-1987)

5. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams

6. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. George Muller

7. Faith is not shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions. Paul Tournier

8. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. Charles L. Allen

9. Remember, if everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. James S. Hewett