"We are all asked to do more than we can do. Every hero and heroine of the Bible does more than he would have thought it possible to do, from Gideon to Esther to Mary. Jacob, one of my favorite characters, certainly wasn't qualified. He was a liar and a cheat; and yet he was given the extraordinary vision of angels and archangels ascending and descending a ladder which reached from earth to heaven." - Madeleine L'Engle in Walking on Water
"God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction." - Meister Eckhart, quoted in Sacred Moments
"It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply." - A. W. Tozer
"It is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many eons it takes, is going to be all right." - Madeleine L'Engle in Glimpses of Grace, Christianity Today: February 1998
"God as the eternal Goldsmith allows the Christian to undergo fiery trials in order that such impurities as obstinacy, willfulness, lack of faith, lack of concern, lack of compassion, and self-centeredness must be burned out of his life that he might become pure reflecting in his very being the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ." -- Harold L. Fickett, Jr.
"Just as men use fire to distinguish true gold from counterfeit, so God uses trials to distinguish genuine faith from superficial profession." - Alan M. Stibbs
"It is the crushed grape that yields the wine." - anonymous
"There is no making without breaking." - anonymous
"We cast broken things aside and call them junk, but God cast unbroken things aside as useless." - anonymous
"Those who fear God most are least afraid of men." - anonymous
