Martha

“Brother was gone and he wouldn’t be back. And things that had been so before would never be so again. We were the way we were, nothing could make us any different, and we suffered because of it. Things happened to us the way they did because we were ourselves.”
― Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter

“If I thank God for this very thing which is killing me I can begin, dimly and faintly, to see it as a gift. I can realize that it is through that very thing, which is so far from being the thing I would have chosen, that God wants to teach me His way of salvation. I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. I will say, “yes Lord.” I will say, “thank you, Lord.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some people, when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumple and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.”
― Roald Dahl, The Swan