Kristin Armstrong Quotes

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and my mother was so upset. "How could you allow him to beat you? You should really be upset with him." And I said, "Mother, I can't be." She goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I can't harbor hatred in my heart." I was extremely religious and extremely naïve. God took me through that for a reason, for me to learn the outcome.

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.