For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them.

You have to go to Scotland at all times of the year - in order to appreciate the times when the sun does come out.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

the worst events of human history that we cannot understand, even hell itself, are only compost in God's wonderful eternal plan. Out of the greatest evil, the death of Jesus, came the greatest good.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.