NO! In some cases it may, in others, absolutely not.
Reggie corrects my statement again. Of course I meant that suffering may help to sanctify us, depending on our own attitude. Suffering turns some in to saints, and others into, ironically, insufferable people.
SD
I agree. Some people may be able to take suffering and use it as a way to grow closer to God. Others just suffer. There is suffering because we live in a fallen world. The solution to suffering is not to embrace it, but rather to work with God in tikkun olam, repairing the world.