John Muir Quotes

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Isn't it funny that God takes you and puts you through the unendurable, and then, at the moment you have just begun to understand it and have some wisdom, it ends?

We learn by misfortune.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

For me, God is someone who takes care of me and creates good and bad phases in my life so that i can learn from them. This is why even when I am going through a lean phase, I don't get fazed, for I believe that's God's way of teaching me something new.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.