Quotes related to Romans 5:3-4
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— St. Jerome
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
— JC Ryle
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
— Aristotle
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
— CS Lewis
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
— Henry Ward Beecher