Troubles are the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The one deceives, the other instructs; the one is miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily sought adversity and commend it in their precepts.
~ Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
~ Phillips Brooks.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
~ John Churton Collins
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace He will be in the furnace with them.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Fiery trials make golden Christians.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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