I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

We can react with bitterness and hate God, as some do, or we can accept suffering as a natural part of life and a condition that comes with living in this world. We cannot avoid suffering, but we can determine our response to it.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.

Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

Can a victim of love find anything her Spouse sends terrible?

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.