As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Grace happens every day.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.