Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Everything you want is on the other side of hard.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

But brokenhearted was brokenhearted. Never embraced. Never treasured. Never easy. Heath figured every human being had a certain amount of God-ordained grace to endure their own unique brand of loss and pain.

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."—Reba McEntire

To succeed in life you need three things: A back bone; A wish bone; A funny bone.

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.