Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
Sometimes you’ve got to go through hell to get to heaven.
Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.