"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine."
- Tertullian
Belief
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
- Tertullian
Hope
"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
- Tertullian
Adversity
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
- Tertullian
Faith
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity