Heaven and earth Quote by Amber Lia

“we receive trials God doesn’t send them on us to harm us but to bless us. A trial is a blessing in disguise meant…

— Adam Houge

“There is a blessèd home, Beyond this land of woe, Where trials never come, Nor tears of sorrow flow; Where faith is lost in…

— Henry W. Baker

“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Has not God chosen those who are pained in this world to inherit his paradise? For it is through suffering we understand our need…

— Rae Carson

“When we shall come home and enter to the possession of our Brother’s fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of…

— Samuel Rutherford

“The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond.”

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“By God’s grace, I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me…

— Tony Reinke

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

— R.L. LaFevers

“It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite…

— Walter Miller

“We are the Lord’s agents in the work of salvation and exaltation that will prevent ‘the whole earth [from being] smitten with a curse’…

— David A. Bednar

“Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands,…

— Henry David Thoreau