“It is our ability to love that makes us most like the Creator…but to love in the face of loss and pain makes us more like God than ever.”
“Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.”
“There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make Him love us less.”
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
“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.”
“God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!”