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“It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.”

Ifs Problem Spiritual Opportunity Given Grows Growth Greater Capacity Overcoming Difficulty Burden Solve Inner Strength Problem Solving Discouraged Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.”

Ifs Way Courses Wish Accepting Greater Exercise Losing Capacity Difficulty Stronger Calm Seeking Relate Daily Life Inner Strength Hardship Fortitude Robust Forbearance Daily Experience

Author:Dalai Lama

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.”

“Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.”

Ifs Knows May Care Difficult Justice Greater Human Nature Theory Equal Difficulty Stronger Asking Practicals Equality And Justice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.”

Effort Knowing Greater Difficulty Not Knowing

Book:The Successful Drawing

Source: The Successful Drawing

“Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.”

Lying Opportunity Greater Equal Benefits Difficulty Obstacles Seeds Setback

Author:Brian Tracy

“The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of the resurrection or better arguments about creation. The world is looking for Christians who can stand up to every crisis, fear, trouble and difficulty and remain calm and at rest in the midst of it all. The world needs to see God's children trusting wholly in their Lord.”

World Needs Children Reality Christian Lord Greater Trouble Creation Argument Difficulty Crisis Calm Proof Midst Resurrection

Author:David Wilkerson

“Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.”

“Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.”

Way Made Half Cases Records Greater Disease Difficulty Posts Physicians Diagnosis One Half Insurmountable

Author:William Osler

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”

Men Should Stills I Can Remember Three Worry Greater Mines Difficulty Mathematics Fingers Pointing

Author:Albert Einstein

“Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.”

Thinking World Real Self Lost Causes Forget Greater This World Higher Difficulty Good Things Forget You Higher Self Real Self

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.”

Men Liberty Greater Cost Difficulty Stealing

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.”

Greater Achieve Capacity Difficulty Persist Greater Things

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

Heart Ends Wisdom Lost Greater Greatness Ambition Difficulty Patience Fortune Endure Dare Hostile Intrigue Tire

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?”

People Stories Light Lying Religion Christianity Greater Generations Goes On Devil Difficulty Salvation Silly Broke Pretending Schemes

Author:H. G. Wells

“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.”

People Giving Facts Faces Opportunity Grows Challenges Greater Greatness Produce Birth Comfort Difficulty Adversity Ease Facts Of Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.”

Ifs Humanity Justice Greater Doors Diversity Difficulty Social Justice Deny Favors

Book:The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

“Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.”

Inspirational Law Opportunity Sports Natural Greater Doors Balance Stones Difficulty Motivational Sports Problem Solving Natural Law Stepping Stones

Author:Bryan Adams

“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”

Life Greater Military Glory Difficulty Inner Growth

Book:De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations

Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”

“Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.”

Giving Law Liberty Greater Importance Difficulty Presses Civil Rights Considering Restraint Precise Scope Freedom Of The Press Mischievous

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians.”

Ifs Science Used Given Force Nature Greater Possibility Masters Keys Fit Built Difficulty Rate Bounds Command What If Bricks Pyramids Insufficient Workmen Pharaohs

Author:Joseph Prestwich

“Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.”

Wisdom Lasts Spiritual Joy Born Prayer Greater Feet Sorrow Gains Difficulty Increase Intense Endeavor Mastery Our Prayers Ripe Obstruction Joys And Sorrows

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.”

Men Firsts Ideas Ends Names Belief Causes Difficult Space Greater Impossible Eternal All Things Difficulty All Time Description Duration

Book:Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

Source: Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

“The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.”

Writing Play Reality Film Given Levels Greater Stage Difficulty Theatre Difficulty Of Writing

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.”

Giving Mind Speak Study Greater Equal Difficulty Infinite Property Arise Quantity Finite

Author:Galileo Galilei

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”

Men Trying Children Might Greater Easier Program Thirds Difficulty Population Despite Operations Elites Reducing Population Control Depopulation Vasectomy

Author:John Holdren

“When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.”

Humans Long Doe Natural Greater Failing Possibility Easier Sight Difficulty Accomplish Cease Prospects

Author:George Muller

“The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.”

Done Prayer Greater Glory Overcoming Difficulty Glory Of God

Author:George Muller

“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”

Firsts Humans Individual Wish Greater Seeing Example Anxiety Negative Difficulty Tendencies Ease Manipulation Items Illumination Evoke Connotation Personal History

Author:Lionel Tiger

“Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.”