• Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you. -Rick Warren
• God never wastes a hurt. There is a purpose behind your pain. -Rick Warren
• Your greatest ministry will come out of your pain. -Rick Warren
• Life is a school and problems are the curriculum. -Rick Warren
• Most of the time we're not willing to face the truth about ourselves until we are forced to. -Rick Warren
• God uses pain to direct us, correct us, inspect us, perfect us, and to protect us. -Rick Warren
• God teaches us the secret of praise and thanksgiving when it hurts so we can worship with integrity on the mountaintops. Mike Pilavachi
• Friends, do not let the suffering of the world challenge your faith any longer; rather, with your faith challenge the suffering of the world.” Aauron Ausland (at the funeral of his wife after she was killed in a bus accident while on the mission field in Bolivia www.kristafoundation.org)  
• I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. -Mother Theresa
• More to come...

September 11, 2001 Quotes:

• God has taught me that the greatest opportunity for bringing the most glory and praise to Him is during the trials and tragedies of life. - Ernest Easley, Odessa, Texas
• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace .... The World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a living representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his belief in the cooperation of men, and through this cooperation his ability to find greatness. - Minoru Yamasaki, the building's architect
• Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized. - George W. Bush
• There is no cause that justifies this type of immoral and inhumane act .... - American Muslim Council
• Until Tuesday (Sept. 11), the bloodiest day in U.S. history was Sept. 17, 1862, when about 4,700 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War battle of Antietam. Pearl Harbor killed 2,388 Americans, and the first day of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, killed 1,465. -USA TODAY
• The Christian sufferer need not know why the blow was struck. He wants to discover what God is doing in the face of it. -Austin Farrer
• It is ... not out of order, if extremely hard to say, that God must have been present in the ovens of the death camps and in the mass graves of Eastern Europe. Where else could He have been than there precisely where His beloved sons and daughters were being tortured and slaughtered? The God of the philosophers may have withdrawn. The God of Golgotha—who is no other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—would have had to be there. -Paul M. Van Buren, Discerning The Way
• Walmart sold 88,000 U.S. flags on September 11th compared to the normal 6,000 a day. AT&T handled a record number of 431 million calls that day. -USA Today