“The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning, and we learn better how much it is worth, and make more of it for God and man. The pressure helps us to understand the trials of others, and fits us to help and sympathize with them.”

Lettie B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, (Los Angeles, CA: The Oriental Missionary Society, 1925), 151.