Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

True obedience is true freedom.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.