If any adversity coming across our path were not beneficial, God would not allow it or send it: "He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone" (Lamentations 3:33, NIV). God does not delight in our suffering. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint

Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

We are stronger in our broken places.

She smiled and her face was heartbreaking.