6 Quotes by Ray Johnston

Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.

What is the difference between people who thrive and people who decline over a long period of time? It’s not that they don’t get knocked down; it’s that they bounce back up. Every successful person I can think of has had to come back from discouraging circumstances. That’s true of people I know personally and those I read about in the Bible. As a matter of fact, every single person in the Bible is a comeback story from something.

Adequate resources don’t change the world. People with hearts strengthened by hope change the world!

Hope can seem like cotton candy, which tastes good at first, but there’s nothing to it. Real hope is a deep and powerful force when it is anchored in the seven factors that sustain hope.

If one falls down,” says Ecclesiastes 4:10, “his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up.

When a struggling individual gets just a 10 percent boost in hope, almost anything becomes possible.