Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in the mixing with joy and songs, else we cannot be disciples. But Christ's cross did not smile on him, his cross was a cross, and his ship sailed in blood, and his blessed soul was sea-sick, and heavy even to death.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Misfortunes never come single.