Sheri L. Dew Quotes

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

I've been through a lot and if God can use that story to help people through a lot of pain and heartache and share hope with people, well we'll see how it progresses.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

A loss is something tough.

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I like movies about failing.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.