We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle of all your crisis. Whenever He comes the whole storm goes down.

But Sara has spent enough time in the darkness to know that you often have to remain there for a long time before you’re ready for the light again.

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

Every time we do something #‎ GOOD . We #‎ RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the #‎ REVERSE is just as #‎ TRUE .