Look upon adversities as adventures.
—Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
Misfortune is an occasion to demonstrate character.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
Neither usefulness nor duty is God's ultimate purpose. His aim is to bring out the message of the gospel, and if that can only be done by his "bruising" me, why shouldn't he?
—Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
No man is fit to comprehend heavenly things who hath not resigned himself to suffer adversities for Christ.
—Thomas A Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Source: Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992). Entries 194-198