“Trials are indeed opportunities to seek God’s helping hand.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor’s yard, but this is… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I never realized how literally we battle demons. Often alone. It is a relentless skirmish with vicious wraith-monsters devouring us from within.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I think in the heart of every human being there burns an ember of hope that warmly entices us to believe everything… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“My world burns severe. Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Dark feelings churn inside me, weighing my spirit as if gray clouds were emptying their cold, drenching contents into my being. I… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life’s journey doesn’t start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one’s character through the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions:… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“ Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days . They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Mystery, why so attractive to me? You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Such a nasty bruise,” he says, staring straight into my eyes. I am stunned he can see it. Delicate to the touch and tender… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
