O. R. Melling Quotes

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.

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

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

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.

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

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.