Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Extraordinary trials happen only to extraordinary people.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.