Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be …

Charles Spurgeon
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Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of. ✨ Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus, p.323
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