Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes
Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.
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Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
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Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
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It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
