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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.


Joseph Stowell

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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the mo...
ROSS TURNER Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Brady picked them apart. We were taking 3-yard passes and turning them into 15, 20 yards gains.
CHARLIE WEIS It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
THOMAS S. MONSON I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
PITBULL But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
ERIN MORGENSTERN Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin f...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J P DONLEAVY Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His ch...
AMY RACHEL PETERSON Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu...
KARL BARTH I like taking a blob of clay and turning it into something beautiful.
EMILY ALLEN Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them ...
JOHN ORTBERG The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia ...
ERIC SEVAREID In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the gr...
ELLEN G. WHITE She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
ANNE BISHOP It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of...
NEIL GAIMAN May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he [Joseph Smith] so beautifully t...
THOMAS S. MONSON We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, J...
HENRY B. EYRING They're sending out this bizarre technological signal that mutates our DNA, turning us into them. Th...
BRANNON BRAGA We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy p...
MITCH DANIELS With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies .....
TOD LANGLEY Educating our communities about ways to reduce underage drinking will help protect our youth. We hav...
KATHRYN JETT God turns past messes into glorious present day messages!
VERONICA S. MCCOY Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the takin...
ARTHUR MILLER A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...
T.S. ELIOT Draw near to God, so the ways of our hearts.... look more like his.
JAIME LYNNE DILLON The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.
THOMAS WATSON All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What real...
PAT NIXON Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces th...
MARK RUFFALO The story was made into a marvelous movie of the same name starring Stewart Granger, Mel Ferrer and ...
JOHN SILER Once we determine in our souls that God’s glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least...
MARK DRISCOLL God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will...
RICHARD STEELE Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and w...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventu...
E. M. FORSTER It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many tr...
GLENN CLOSE As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON We're taking an area that's undeveloped and turning it into something that will be a showpiece.
MICHAEL HACHEY Dear me! I must be turning into a god.
VESPASIAN The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is...
HENRY B. EYRING For one who knows not God – Mighty and Glorious!- silence is imperative, and for one who knows God...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be...
DEBORAH BRODIE As we sink deeper into the ways of this world, we put more and more distance between ourselves and G...
FATHOM Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, i...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.
JESMYN WARD And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coa...
BIBLE Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our i...
LORETTA NAPOLEONI Wnen Satan does his worst, God does His best."
JAIME CONTRERAS And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, / And delivered h...
BIBLE What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
E. M. CIORAN What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
EMILE M. CIORAN What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their tr...
RICHARD ROHR We are very excited about what Joseph brings to the table. Joseph has a single-minded, bulldog deter...
DOUG GREEN God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by mo...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling t...
MONICA O MONTGOMERY We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than somethin...
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and h...
BIBLE When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than suff...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ...
MATT TAIBBI I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous thing...
GALILEO GALILEI He fully understands that one of our most significant assets is our people, and developing our talen...
GARY FORSEE The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the peopl...
CRISS JAMI I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be p...
JOHN WESLEY To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre...
H. A. IRONSIDE Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspiration...
JOSEPH C. LINCOLN God has received us into His family, He is the possessor of everything
SUNDAY ADELAJA Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.
EVINDA LEPINS God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.
MARK TWAIN The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord G...
MARTIN LUTHER The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? On...
SOCRATES The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better G...
SOCRATES God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS Something important I have learned is patience, and turning each failure into a learning experience....
LINDSEY RIETZSCH Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking...
ELIZABETH GILBERT To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre...
H. A. IRONSIDE Our key has always been our away points. This time we're turning those draws into wins, and that's m...
KASEY KELLER To get the most out of a life's journey, one has to positively live through its humbling and gloriou...
WAYNE CHIRISA The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...
DALLAS WILLARD God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religio...
JAY PARINI The glorious presence of God is with us.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better...
SOCRATES Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways ...
BIBLE I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophe...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plat...
MARK TWAIN Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to w...
MYLES MUNROE Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that ...
K. HOWARD JOSLIN CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne ...
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JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON