When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

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.