Edmund Spenser Quotes

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

My life was pretty rough.

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.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Certain struggles never end.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

People need to know what I've gone through.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

Everybody goes through their own tribulations in life.

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Everyone has troubles in their life.

You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

It is difficulties that show what men are.