Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.

In horrible destruction laid thus low,   As far as Gods and Heav'nly Essences   Can Perish: for the mind and spirit remains   Invincible, and vigour soon returns,   Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state   Here swallow'd up in endless misery.