Your past success and victories, small or large, can renew your resolve to persevere if you are willing to lean on them.

One does not become strong lifting feathers.

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

Danger is opportunity inside out.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Let us look at every person who annoys or agitates us, as God's means of grace, God's instrument for our purification, for the working out of the humility Jesus our Life breathes within us.

In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.