The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

If someone says to you 'life is hard', ask them 'compared to what?'

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials.

If the Giver gives you a hill to plough, don’t level it.

…God says He is like that eagle…And so He rakes up the comfortable home nest, and lets us feel the prickles of pain and sorrow, not because He is cruel, not because He wants to punish us, but because He wants us to rise to something brighter and better, to the City of Sunshine.

At first you get in a situation where you abhor it.  You can't stand it.  It's terrible.  But you can't get away from it.  So you stick with it.  And then you get so that you can tolerate it.  You tolerate it long enough, you embrace it.  It becomes your way of life.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

When God restores our spiritual sight through the mystery of evil, we are then able to see the work of God displayed with in the framework of our most difficult question.  With tears of joy we bend before him.

In summary, for the Christian, evil is real, this world is real, and time is real.  Jesus recognized all three realities with reference to the blind man.  He pointed out that this world has built into it the component of time.  And upon the anvil of time beats the hammer of eternity until time ultimately reflects the values of the etermnal and willl be shed as a sheel, from within which ultimate truths will be freely embraced.  When we enter that stage, we will find out that the real anvil was eternity, that time provided the hammers, and that God’s glory and purpose will be what remains.

When you experience flak, that means you’re over the target.

As you trust Him, exercise faith in Him, He will help you. That support will generally come step by step, a portion at a time. While you are passing through each phase, the pain and difficulty that comes from being enlarged will continue. If all matters were immediately resolved at your first petition, you could not grow.