Don't fall for the lie that you can't enjoy life until the problem has been resolved. In the world you have trouble, but in Me you may have Peace—even in the midst of the mess! Your

When days grow dark and nights grow dreary, we can be thankful that our God combines in his nature a creative synthesis of love and justice that will lead us through life's dark valleys and into sunlit pathways of hope and fulfillment.

If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible," a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that's what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it's hard.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.