God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.

Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

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You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.