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.

When the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

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

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.