Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.

I tried to drink a cup of tea, but my hands shook when I lifted the cup to my mouth. I was on the verge of tears, but I knew that tears would do no good. I fed the fire, I prayed, I walked the floor, I prayed, I read my Bible, I prayed; and somehow this even longer second day of storm passed by, hour by hour.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.