Melissa Richardson

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity