I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring God, and manifesting the excellence of grace here, when you are in this conflict of temptation, which God shall not have from you in Heaven.

God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in our lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never over trains us by allowing too much adversity in our lives.