Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

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

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

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.

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

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

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

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.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

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

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.