In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.
Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
There is no education like adversity.
Adversity are the lemons nobody wanted, but without them we would still be in a cave pounding rocks
Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.
Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.
Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.
You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.
As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.
When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.
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