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“Edwin Hubbell Chapin wrote that “out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars;”
― Susan Van Volkenburgh, Silent Resolve and the God Who Let Me Down

“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“We will either find a way or make one.”
― Hannibal

“Tragedy shapes us, but it does not have to define us.”
― Susan Van Volkenburgh, Silent Resolve and the God Who Let Me Down:

“Scars are wounds healed over. My scars are a testimony of my journey.”
― Susan Van Volkenburgh, Silent Resolve and the God Who Let Me Down:

“Do not let anyone or anything have dominion over you but God." Stanley R. Hall”
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“We all have hurts. But to each one who suffers, his is the greatest.”
― Susan Van Volkenburgh, Silent Resolve and the God Who Let Me Down

“O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.”
― William Wordsworth

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
― William Butler Yeats