Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.