Whenever you begin to conclude, 'I can't win,' and 'What's the use?' you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.