Quotes related to Romans 5:3-4
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
— John Calvin
There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.
— Karl Barth
Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.
— Karl Barth
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
— John Adams
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
— John Donne
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
And man will go on. Man, not men.
— Ayn Rand
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
— Elbert Hubbard
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
— George Eliot
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
— Aristotle