“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
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Philip Yancey23
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“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
“Things ’twas hard to bear ’tis pleasant to recall.”
quae fuit durum pati, meminisse dulce est.
Seneca the Younger Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 656-657; (Amphitryon)
Alternate translation: Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. (translator unknown).
Tragedies
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
"The Altar of Righteousness" in Harper's Monthly (June 1904).
Context: God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades;
God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades.
More was each of these, yet they were, than man their servant seemed:
Dead are all of these, and man survives who made them while he dreamed.
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Underwoods
Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Underwoods (1887)
Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 5, Social Hygiene, p. 115