God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.

rubbed the ugly, jagged scar that ran from the corner of his eye to his hairline just above his ear. He was glad

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

He who is able to lift heavy weights is strong; he who is able to carry heavy burdens is great.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

I think it is significant that it is the younger churches with no pretensions to western `sophistication' who look at the Acts, learn from it, and go out in the power of the same Lord expecting him to do equally mighty things through them. That is happening in Latin America, much of Asia, and a great deal of Africa. The Christians in these regions seem to have a facility we have lost for reading the story, learning from it, and applying it.

it confirmed Bannon's worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.