Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

These are the times that try men's souls.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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 still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

Never lose hope under adverse situations.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

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

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.