Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Surviving Is the only war we can afford.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

It's the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.

The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.

It is from the depths of dark and dirty places in our lives that we scream for God's attention and help while misunderstanding that, just like with a natural seed, it is the microbes in the soil of life that eat away at our efforts to protect ourselves from harm.

A pearl of great price is our pain wrapped in God's perfection.