Good to be afflicted

Here are several good verses from today's Grief Bites:

It's good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. (Psalm 119:71)

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9:23)

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. (John 14:1)