When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

I've learned that you can get through things that hurt. Nothing will kill you. Nothing. People are unbelievable. we have such resilience.

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.