Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Faith in yourself matters.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.