The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

Our business, whatever comes, is to continue to believe and follow Jesus, certain that a divine blessing is coming our way. In the middle of the worst storm imaginable, we tie ourselves heart and soul to the mast of the truth of God's promise that disappointment will lead to hope. It's not that we won't hear the screeches of the enemy's lies in the night, but we will refuse to chart our course by them.

of God's promise that disappointment will lead to hope.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Every knock is a boost.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.