spiritual blessings come wrapped in trials.

Adverse circumstances become growth opportunities when you affirm your trust in Me no matter what.

Evaluate how well you are handling the adversity in your life. I don't waste anything, including your suffering.

Jesus sufferes to sympathize with our sufferings.

Love is something worth suffering for...

Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy; but I turn to Him who can save, and if His wisdom does not will my expected union, I know He will give me strength to bear my lot.

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.