I was looking through my quote collection today

"Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."—Lamartine

“We don't measure the outrage of our suffering by how insignificant we think sin is; we measure the outrage of sin by the scope of suffering.” —John Piper

“If I don’t ask ‘Why me?’ after my victories, I cannot ask ‘Why me?’ after my setbacks and disasters.”—Arthur Ashe

“All my worries may come true, but God will never be untrue to me.”—Kevin DeYoung

“I have to remember that the core of God’s plan is to rescue me from sin, even up to my dying breath. My pain and discomfort are not His ultimate focus—He cares about these things, but they are merely symptoms of the real problem. God cares most not about making my life happy, healthy, and free of all trouble, but about teaching me to hate my transgressions and to keep growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus.”—Joni Erickson Tada

“What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?”—The magician in The Magician’s Elephant, by Kate DiCamillo

"Among the daily chances of this life every man on earth is threatened in the same way by innumerable deaths, and it is uncertain which of them will come to him. And so the question is whether it is better to suffer one in dying or to fear them all in living."—St. Augustine

"If there's anything I'm sure of, it is that heaven is a coming home."—Sheldon VanAuken in A Severe Mercy

"We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him, throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."—C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"I came out of the church and saw the crucifix they have there, and I thought, of course, He's got mercy, only it's such an odd sort of mercy, it sometimes looks like punishment."—Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep."—Charlotte Brontë, Villette

"In the desert all we have to cling to is the promise."—John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason

"The good of God, the joy of God, is going to infinitely outweigh all of the sufferings—and even the joys—of this world."—Peter John Kreeft

"'I mean that we are here on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else."—G.K. Chesterton

"As Isaac Watts reminds us in his famous carol, 'He comes to make His blessings flow--far as the curse is found!' If you don't know how bad things are, you can't possibly know either how good things are going to be."—Joel Belz

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this."—Jewel in The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis