“Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.”
“Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.”
“God never wastes an experience or trial in our lives. Good or bad, easy or painful, he is able to use everything in our lives to grow us and make us more like him.”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.”
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”