I thought she'd get angry then, but all she said was, "You are not unique in the universe. No one has an easy time in life. But maybe God has effed up—as you put it—your life for a reason." "And I can hardly fucking wait to find out what that is," I said.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.