Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Rainbows can't rise without storms.