Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

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

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.

Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .