“Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.”
“What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.”
“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”
“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”
“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”
“I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.”