Kent Nerburn Quotes

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

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

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

I think our greatest moments of pain can be our greatest chance to grow in our faith and to share it and hopefully bring someone else back from the brink.

From out of pain, beauty.