Charles Spurgeon Quotes

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

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

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

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

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.