I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

This speciously deep thought was to haunt Christian metaphysics: that love without pain and guilt remains simply a joke, a game.

If God is testing us, He must know by now that many of us fail the test. If He is only giving us burdens we can bear, I have seen Him miscalculate far too often.

To wish to forget the hope because it wasn't realized, to try to cleanse your mind of the beautiful dream because it didn't come true, is to miss out on lie altogether, because life is designed to be lived in an alternation of hours of sunlight and hours of darkness.