But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. It forces us into God's arms, and that's where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him.

Then Jesus healed the man. I think the important thing here is that we can't always pin down reasons for tragedy. Life is tough—you know that. But every hard moment can be met by God, used by God. That's the glory of it. We can ask why, but we may never find the answer. But we will find God if we turn to Him. In that surrender, He'll turn the tragedy into something for His glory and your eternal good, according to His will.

It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond. Being broken, being empty is part of life. But how we fill up those empty places, how we heal - that's what matters.

feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

Don't feel sorry for me.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.