J. C. Ryle Quotes

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

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

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.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

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.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.