God gives burdens, also shoulders. –Yiddish proverb
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. –Helen Keller
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. –Lord Kelvin
In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. –M. Scott Peck
It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to get into trouble and the ability to get out of trouble are seldom present in the same person.
With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. –David Lloyd George
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. –Chinese proverb
God will look you over, not for the medals or degrees, but for scars. –Edward Sheldon
Christ did not come to do away with suffering; He did not come to explain it; He came to fill it with His presence. –Paul Claudel
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential–and enemies to push us beyond it. –Jim Vorsas
Never fear shadows. That just means a light’s shining somewhere nearby.
A woman described a nerve-wracking ordeal: “It was like being trapped for four hours in a stuck elevator with a team of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”