I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
