The most beautiful people are those who have known

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. --C.S. Lewis

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? --Thomas à Kempis

*In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. --Jesus Christ

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. --Corrie Ten Boom