The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

we persevere because we believe rewards will come.

The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.

Rejoicing in suffering" does not mean Christians should act happy about tragedy and pain when they feel like crying. Rather, the Bible aims the spotlight on the end result, the productive use God can make of suffering in our lives. To achieve that result, however, he first needs our commitment of trust, and the process of giving him that commitment can be described as rejoicing.

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering.

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.