Some Quotes:

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Adversity
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest
ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest
storm.—COLTON.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above
them.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and
glorified through the furnace of tribulation. —CHAPIN.

Affliction
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out
his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.—PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance;
the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity. Extraordinary
afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of
extraordinary graces. —MATTHEW HENRY.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most
comfortable way of dying.—FLAVEL.

Christ
The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble,
tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.—DECKER.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these
creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to
this very day millions would die for Him.—NAPOLEON I.

Christianity
It is the truth divine, speaking to our whole being: occupying, calling into action, and satisfying
man’s every faculty, supplying the minutest wants of his being, and speaking in one and the same
moment to his reason, his conscience and his. heart. It is the light of reason, the life of the heart,
and the strength of the will.—PIERRE.

It is a refiner as well as a purifier of the heart; it imparts correctness of perception, delicacy of
sentiment, and all those nicer shades of thought and feeling which constitute elegance of
mind.—MRS. JOHN SANFORD.

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers,
had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a
message. —ADDISON.

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Here are some more I gleaned:

Contentment
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your
desires.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.—MARIE
EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand
desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. —BALGUY.

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.—SOCRATES.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.—HOSEA BALLOU

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.— (Php 4:11)

Courage
To struggle when hope is banished!
To live when life’s salt is gone!
To dwell in a dream that’s vanished!
To endure, and go calmly on!

The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
—JOANNA BAILLIE

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage
loses all.—CERVANTES.

Death
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine
cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.—COLTON.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.—RICHTER.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is an alleviation to
mortals who are worn out with sufferings.—METASTASIO.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.—GOTTHOLD

Death is the crown of life.—YOUNG.

So live, that, when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain’d and
sooth’ d
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one that draws the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
—BRYANT.

Despair
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.—JEREMY
TAYLOR.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.—BEACONSFIELD.

Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He is, none are desolate, there
is no room for despair.—MRS. BROWNING.

Difficulties
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labour does the body.—SENECA.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards
may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.—AARON HILL

It is difficulties which give birth to miracles.—REV. DR. SHARPE

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian and
legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too.. He that wrestles
with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.—BURKE.

Experience
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.—BAYARD TAYLOR.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not
ground.—H. W. SHAW.

Faith
Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God’s treasures; the king’s messenger from the celestial
world, to bring all the supplies we need out of the fullness that there is in Christ.—J. STEPHENS.

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.—YOUNG.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his
wisdom, happy by his happiness.—ADDISON.