When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,