Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

People were saying John Elway should retire until he won the Super Bowl.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Character is that which can do without success.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.