Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Success will ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.

I want you to tell them my little story, and then tell them the good news-that when you know Christ, you know there's something better coming.

Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Your best days are not behind you. They're in front of you.

Whatever you're facing, it is under your feet. It is not permanent. It's temporary. Stay

You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past.