Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced.

No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

When the vivid reality which is meant by these rather abstract words is truly possessed by us, when that which is unchanging in ourselves is given its chance, and emerges from the stream of succession to recognise its true home and goal, which is God—then, though much suffering may, indeed will, remain; apprehension, confusion, instability, despair, will cease.

instead of those broad blind alleys which philosophy showed us, a certain type of mind has always discerned three strait and narrow ways going out towards the Absolute. In religion, in pain, and in beauty-

But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Heaven gives us hope—hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we're facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven.

One of the bonuses of being a Christian is the glorious hope that extends out beyond the grave into the glory of God's tomorrow.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.

Disappointments are part of life; we can't always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, "Oh well, a hundred years from now it won't make any difference!