Quotes related to Romans 5:3-5
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
— Seneca
The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.
— Shane Claiborne
I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.
— Oprah Winfrey
I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.
— Oprah Winfrey
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?
— Barack Obama
Don't let your failures define you.
— Barack Obama
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People had to manage terrible truths.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whole phases of her children's lives, these passions that had seemed to be their purest marrow, had faded away one after another. And character persisted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.
— Stephen Covey