Faith gives us the courage to endure every circumstance.
Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
There are two ways to live our lives , the easy way and the hard way , if you choose to live the hard way , stop expecting anything at all , don't get your hopes high , no matter how good you are , yo...
We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if...
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.
Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on...
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to unders...
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