Tess McDonald

“Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Be Still My Soul: Reflections on Living the Christian Life

“There is no qualitative or quantitative measurement for pain. It is simply there--sharp or dull, shooting or stabbing, bearable or excruciating, local or general, it is unexplained, uninvited, unavoidable. It takes command. It is all-encompassing, implacable, exigent.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Love Has A Price Tag

“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.'
I did not know, as I listened to my father's footsteps winding back down the stairs, that he had given me more than the key to this hard moment. I did not know that he had put in my had the secret that would open far darker rooms that this--places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place