Garrett Miller

“Though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed