A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn’t break.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were not so before! I conclude that “Success resides behind the curtains of complains;...

The next time you feel that you will never get past the things you’re experiencing now, look back on the trials you’ve experienced in the past and think about how far you’ve come since they...

Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war. Now, life is a journey, and I am a warrior. Prepared for anything and weakened by nothing. There are hills and...

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in...

(The death of his child) “was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal...

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.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of...

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.

You have been insulted, and you have been beaten…and yet you have refused to let any of it hurt you where it really mattered: on the inside. You are indeed a stone. You withstand the...

Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn...

Knowing the path to follow doesn’t make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we’d all have arrived.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for...

Choose to view life through God’s eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage...

How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and defeating us, we must make some tough choices in our lives. We must...

Jesus Christ is always there for you. He longs to aid you, He longs to be by your side, to help you through your struggles, to heal your aching heart and to mend your broken...

We are all tired of the stress.

During a trial, boy, you think, eat, sleep and crap only the trial.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they’d be congested with traffic.

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because...

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready...

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.

I trust God to carry me no matter the outcome. I trust that he has led us here and that he will either fulfill my hopes or repair my broken heart.

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for...

I recognized that I was small and soft; I wanted to believe in people – that they were kind and good, and given the chance, everything would turn out okay – but bad things do...

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real...

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I’ll stop saying, “It isn’t fair” about everything else.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn’t mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don’t worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry…He’s risen!

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, “Feel joy.” He says, “Rejoice!” It’s a choice.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how...