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"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken."

Death, taxes and the frig door ice dispenser not working

“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.” #CSLewis

Don’t feel the need to explain away your darkness, to pretend it isn’t real and hard. Wait, cling, pray, seek, and trust that your God will come through for you. desiringgod.org/articles/when-…

The Joneses' grass never looks as green to the Joneses as it does to you.

“The devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires.” —John Piper

The enemy will lie to you. He minimizes your sin before you commit it and maximize it after you’ve done it.

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of it. It’s important to remember that what matters than the failure itself is how you respond and move on. - Inky Johnson

“Courage, dear heart.”

God failing your timeline isn’t God failing. It’s your lack of patience. Know this- He will make your situation beautiful in His time, and you’ll look back in gratitude at the mercy and grace He poured out on you through the journey. Just trust His promises today.

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” – C.S. Lewis

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” – C. S. Lewis

It is my own sense of weakness that keeps me on my knees.

“...the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.” -A. Dumbledore A description of sin that would make the Heidelberg Catechism proud (Q&A 5 and 8).

Hunger for Jesus leads to a lost appetite for things that don’t matter

It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.

Christianity never promised that it would impose universal peace. It had a great deal too much respect for personal liberty.

Because of the changing nature of emotions, your feelings need to align with Truth. You don’t deny feelings, because they are real. What you have to do, though, is speak truth to your troubles. “This is how I feel, but this is what God says.”