Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, "to prove us and to improve us.

Suffering in and of itself does not lead a person into a deeper relationship with God. As with those who hear the word of God yet do not respond to it with faith, suffering divorced from faith and hope will actually embitter us as our hearts grow harder rather than softer toward God. In other words, suffering will either make us run to God or away from Him. In the midst of trials, we must ask ourselves, "Is this trial making me bitter and callous, or is it making me loving and gentle?

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.