"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." -Kahlil Gibran
"Does a man know any gospel truth aright till he knows it by experience? Is not this the reason why God’s servants are made to pass through so many trials, that they may really learn many truths not otherwise to be apprehended? Do we learn much in sunny weather? Do we not profit most in stormy times? Have you not found it so that your sick-bed, your bereavement, your depression of spirit, has instructed you in many matters which tranquillity and delight have never whispered to you? I suppose we ought: to learn as much by joy as by sorrow, and I hope that many of my Lord’s better servants do so; but, alas! others of us do not; affliction has to be called in to whip the lesson into us." -C.H. Spurgeon
In my own experience, I've found this to be true. Makes me think.
