1,395 quotes found
“It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.”
“Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.”
“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
“He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.”
“Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.”
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.”
“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.”
“A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.”
“The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.”
“Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.”
“I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.”
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
“There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.”
“Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.”
“I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.”
“Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.”
