We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

If you aren't smelling awful smells sometimes, then you're not where Jesus is.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

She whispered, "What of love?" "Bah. Love is for poets and princes. For the likes of us, we must hope for a tomorrow without pain." Dorit must have seen the sorrow shadow Leah's eyes, for her voice gentled. "My little one, listen carefully to what I say. You must set such futile dreams of love and happiness aside. And you must plan.

Despite their poverty, their tragic pasts, their own sorrows, they stood before her in strength and spoke with a wisdom that defied their circumstances.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.