Unhurt people are not much good in the world. Enid Starkie

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but
its victory is not an easy one. The old does not give way to the new without trying to
overcome it. Reinhold Niebuhr

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what
remains is generally more manageable than we had imagined. Lesley Hazelton

Virtue will have nought to do with ease…. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Montaigne

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced. Leo Tolstoy

Pain nourishes courage. You can‚t be brave if you‚ve only had wonderful
things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore

Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours
in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my
American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain
wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have
done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and
hell-deserving me. — George Whitefield (1714-1770), letter to John Newton

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Graham J Weeks

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