He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up—now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.