
“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Message to Tanzanian Presidential candidate Edward Lowassa - "VIDEO - Accept Election Results, TB Joshua Urges Tanzanian Opposition Leader" http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/08/video-accept-election-results-tb-joshua-urges-tanzanian-opposition-leader/ PM News, Nigeria (November 8 2015)
“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Misattributed to Tryon Edwards by a number of websites, thinkexist.com and quoteland.com among others. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section ( from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts. )
Misattributed
Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.
“You have lifted a shadow of fear for many families. God bless you and may God bless the victims.”
Air Force One phone call https://web.archive.org/save/http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2002-10-25/article/15626?headline=Bush-praises-law-community-for-capturing-sniper-suspects--By-Ron-Fournier- to Charles A. Moose (24 October 2002), as quoted in "Bush Praises Law Community For Capturing Sniper Suspects" (25 October 2002), by Ron Fournier, Berkeley Daily Planet.
2000s, 2002
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 406).
"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."