"...........God wants you to have that same certainty about Him. He wants you to be so convinced of His presence in your life that even when you can't feel it, sense it or see it, you know He is there. He wants you to be completely sure that the light of His spirit in you will never be put out. You don't have to keep looking for it. You don't have to doubt it. No circumstance can dim it. It is there for now and all eternity."

"God sometimes allows things to get very dark in our lives in order to grow us up and teach us about Himself. And some things that we accomplish in darkness cannot happen in any other setting."

"Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced."