Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.