Billy Graham Quotes

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

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

We learn from the things we suffer.

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

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

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.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

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

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Joy came always after pain.

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

The reward of pain is experience.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.