What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.
Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.