The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.

Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.