Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.
Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.
Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.
There is healing in the bitter cup.
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
