Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

What is certain is that to become of interest, for one's life to be interesting, has nothing to do with what you can turn your hand to but is a fateful privilege which, like every privilege in the world of spirit, can only be purchased in deep pain.

And isn't it true here too that those whom God blesses he damns in the same breath?

The truth is that to become a Christian is to become unhappy for this life. The situation is this: the more thou hast to do with God, and the more He loves thee, the more wilt thou become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life, the more thou wilt have to suffer in this life.

The truth is: to become a Christian is to become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life; the proportion is: the more you involve yourself with God and the more he loves you, the more you will become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life, the more you will come to suffer in this life

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.