After all, I'd never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea.

How often is such the case with us: some sore trial presses, and we cry unto God for relief, but before His answer comes, matters appear to get worse. Ah, that is in order that His hand may be the more evident.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path.

Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.