“ The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards. Jim George
“ You just have too little faith, Estella...in yourself and in God. Don't assume that because He didn't give you one thing you wanted, He isn't ready to give you something else you might want more. He k… Dawn Crandall
“ The Lord knows all - His timing and reasoning is perfect. If we really trust Him, then we no longer see our failures as a bad thing. We will see them as an answer to our prayers even if we don't under… Lindsey Rietzsch
“ Unbelief loves to paint the bleakest picture it can. It loves to get us mumbling to ourselves, I'm not going to make it. I just know this is going to turn out terrible. The future is bound to crash on… Jim Cymbala
“ When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart. Renee Swope
“ I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell. Shannon L. Alder
“ Nay, we sometimes proceed so far as to trust in ourselves, and depend on our own power, strength, and abilities. Then it is that God in mere mercy interposes, and breaks us in pieces; humbles, and con… Johann Arndt
“ I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing. Barry Hannah
“ God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing fro… William MacDonald
“ Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--t… John Paul II
“ I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his… Tracie Miles
“ Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me. Josh Ross
“ 1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omn… William L. Rowe
“ It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the pa… Bertrand Russell