If we speak in truth it may not always feel good, but it will always be right.

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect.

Perking up, the little girl said, “Is your head hurt mister, ‘cause you keep rubbing it?”Pausing, David said, “Ah, no. Sometimes it’s just the thoughts that hurt.

There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest essence of our pain.

With God, my brokenness is nothing more than the platform from which He can demonstrate why He is God.

I would much prefer to be broken than to live out the entirety of my life never having known what it’s like to be healed.

You know as well as I do that choosing to love another person is choosing to be hurt. However, is choosing ‘not to love’ actually choosing to be hurt simply because we will have chosen to keep a part of ourselves to ourselves that will die a most horrific death in the keeping?

Hatred is the stuff that we turn on others because we turned it on ourselves first.

The most painful kind of pain is to think that the pain that we’re feeling is nothing more than the pain that we’re feeling. For if that is the case, we have completely missed the purpose of pain and there are few things more painful than that.