Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

We may not like to admit it, but what if our crushing is necessary in order for our potential to be fulfilled?

God had a strategy in the ugly places because those were the fields in which he decided to cultivate us.

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

We should not expect to have all of the blessings o life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it. ... As it is...I have come to believe that it's only by taking some of those objects away from us to which our hearts so closely cling that He endeavors....in His kindness, to draw us from this world to one of greater happiness.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.