The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
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.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
