Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

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

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.