"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis

"A crisis doesn’t make a man; it shows what a man is made of."

- Warren Wiersbe

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."

– George Bernard Shaw

"You fearful saints fresh courage take, the clouds you so much dread are big with mercy and will break in blessings on your head."

- Anonymous

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."

- Frederick Buechner

"Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight."

- St. Augustine

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not a call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"

- C. S. Lewis

"If you don't feel pain, you won't feel anything else."

- Gillian Rose, in her unfinished Paradiso

"Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place."

- David Wilkerson, Founder of Teen Challenge