Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

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.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.