The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

When God supports us, illness is no misfortune, especially when we get new ideas and new intentions in those days of illness that would not have come to us if what not been ill, and when we achieve clearer faith and stronger trust in God.

You must not go there in too anemic or enervated a condition, if you set a value on coming out of it stronger. I do not consider it a great misfortune for you to be obliged to be a soldier, but rather as a very serious trial from which you will emerge - if you emerge at all - a very great artist.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. "People said they grew more during seasons of loss, pain, and crisis than they did at any other time." We discover the hidden value of suffering only by suffering — not as part of God's original or ultimate plan for us, but as a redemptive transformation that takes place in the midst of trial.