In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

I am not, proceeded Susan firmly, going to lament or whine or question the wisdom of the Almighty any more as I have been doing lately. Whining and shirking and blaming Providence do not get us anywhere. We have just got to grapple with whatever we have to do whether it is weeding the onion patch, or running the Government. I shall grapple. Those blessed boys have gone to war; and we women, Mrs. Dr. dear, must tarry by the stuff and keep a stiff upper lip.