06/21/09 3:07PM

Coming off of having been sick for a while and feeling alternately frusterated and discouraged, these quotes really caught my attention and I wanted to share. Good thoughts well put!


"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process." -- Phillips Brooks


"Trials, temptations, disappointments--all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rigtly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." --James Buckham
  • split_rock
    Beautiful picture over there! Love the quotes! Are you ok?
    by split_rock at 06/21/09 3:28PM
  • onelittlecandle
    yes, working on it. getting a lot better, it's just slower than I'd like. :)
    by onelittlecandle at 06/21/09 4:04PM
  • holly_ann
    I'm sad to hear that you are so down right now. These are great quotes... it's too bad I keep failing my tests :\
    by holly_ann at 06/22/09 8:53AM
  • jkmram
    Loved your poem, below... and congratulations on your engagement.

    Hope you are better, soon.
    by jkmram at 06/22/09 10:04PM
  • puppymaster
    Sometimes the body does seem against us. I can't wait to visit you soon.
    by puppymaster at 06/23/09 10:33AM