Life involves struggle.

You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual.

The family of Abraham will no longer feel temptations, and the family of Job will not feel afflictions. The family of David will no longer mourn loss and death, the family of Paul will not feel thorns in the flesh, and the family of Lazarus will no longer be afflicted by poverty and sores.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

when you are chosen for suffering, you are chosen for the blessing of displaying the works of God

The enemy may be vicious, but he is not victorious.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.