Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.

The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.

For some things, said his aunt, it was a good thing Paul was ill that Christmas. I believe it saved his mother. Paul

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.