Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

Keep your words. This pain is no life. You only feel pain because you're alive, boy! the keeper thundered. This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.

Sin is behovely, but all shall be well...

just the thought of some temporary discomfort was enough to keep him from the spiritual adventure of a lifetime.

God's idea of ministry training is a broken vessel. His idea of spiritual preparation is suffering, which includes rejection.

Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.