The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

(Death: The Final Stage of Growth, 1975)

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,but the Lord delivers him out of them all. (19)

Affliction will slay the wicked,……… (21)

Psalm 34

The difference is not in the suffering,

the difference is in the sufferer.

Thankful for Suffering as a Saint

Christian Suffering is Light

2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Christian Suffering is Limited

2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Christian Suffering is More Logical

2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18