The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.