and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

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Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

The struggles don't define you. It's how you handle them that determines who you are.

day. You lost your man and