John G Paton

If it be to glorify my God, I will not grudge to spend many nights alone in such a tree, to feel again my Savior's spiritual presence, to enjoy His consoling fellowship. If thus thrown back upon your own soul, alone, all alone, in the midnight, in the bush, in the very embrace of death itself, have you a Friend that will not fail you then?

Charles Simeon

My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ's sake. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory.

Ann Voskamp

When we want to know answers, God simply wants us to know Him.

Peter Kreeft

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God -
so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

Ann Voskamp daily email, May 15, 2012

Ann Voskamp

The surrendered accept that pain is always but growing pains.

And growth is always a gift — even when trials are the tutor.

Daily email, May 15, 2012

Ann Voskamp

There are still resurrections and we are witnesses.

My sister and brother-in-law, they carry Baby Ema to the front of the chapel and they tell the story of the last year, of Ema not breathing and her heart stopping and, facing losing this little girl, how they came to taste it, like the mystery of manna, that when nothing makes sense, God is enough, and they know it, because they’ve experienced it, that the tomb is empty and He rises in us, and I can’t look up now at all.

Daily Email, 4/9/12