Suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.

Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.

You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

As we survey church history, we discover that A. W. Tozer's piercing observation is most accurate: "All great Christians have been wounded souls.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.