A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories.

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

Et le Seigneur se pencha, il cueillit doucement la fleur embaumée, il détacha sans effort sa grappe chérie du cep amer de l'exil, la trouvant totalement dorée des feux de l'Amour divin. Quelles

Offer to God the sacrifice of never gathering any fruit. If He will that throughout your whole life you should feel a repugnance to suffering and humiliation—if He permit that all the flowers of your desires and of your good will should fall to the ground without any fruit appearing, do not worry. At the hour of death, in the twinkling of an eye, He will cause fair fruits to ripen on the tree of your soul.

Where is God in suffering? He's in it with us, and in it for us.