God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

My only consolation lies in not having any here below.

Can a victim of love find anything her Spouse sends terrible?

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

The best come from the worst

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to leave you stuck in a state of defeat

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.