Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Suffering brings experience.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

The reward of suffering is experience.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

I have been through so much.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.