Life and Light

Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey || Jennifer DeLucy

Regardless of the situation, don’t give in…and have no regrets …for all things will work out for your own good || Huithiang

As the winds of the storm fortify the roots of a tree, hardship strengthens your spirit || Martin Suarez

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse || Randy Pausch

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival || Winston Churchill

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face || Eleanor Roosevelt

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty || Winston Churchill

Let this encourage those of you who belong to Christ: the storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. The clouds that are temporarily rolling over your head will pass, and then you will have fair weather, an eternal sunshine of glory. Can you not watch with Christ for one hour? || Williams Gurnall

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope || Martin Luther King

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines || Robert Schuller

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you || Thisuri Wanniarachchi

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It’s all about light and shade. Balance || Gabrielle Williams

Difficult times show true colors, hard times reveal true friends, and the good will be blessed through the pain…Just let go and let God || Unknown

Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through || Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times || George Washington

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering… The love of God did not protect His own Son… He will not necessarily protect us – not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process || Elisabeth Elliot

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world || Albert Schweitzer

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them || C.S. Lewis

Never question the clouds, they’re only bringing the life-giving rain || Amber Schamel

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering… The love of God did not protect His own Son… He will not necessarily protect us – not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process || Elisabeth Elliot

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other || John Bunyon

Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships and trials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously || Lee Robertson

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars || Henry Ward Beecher