Quotes related to Romans 5:3-5
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
— AW Pink
Being out of work brought a lot of new and starkly instructive experiences.
— Audre Lorde
But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
— Ayn Rand
He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit
— Ayn Rand
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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.
— Mother Angelica
If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose.
— Heidi Baker
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— JRR Tolkien
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
— Adoniram Judson
If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.
— Peter Kreeft