James Martineau Quotes

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.