Coming Out Strong

From The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren talks about being "transformed by trouble." In this chapter he brings up the following points:

When we're in pain, we don't have time for superficial prayers.

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days.

We learn things about God in suffering that we can't learn any other way.

[God] depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible. The reason is obvious: You face circumstances twenty-four hours a day.

What problem in my life has caused the greatest growth in me?