Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.
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