Christians are not called to be Stoics

From Calvin, on the subject of what we might call ”standing tough” in the face of adversity:

“Now, among the Christians there are also new Stoics, who count it depraved not only to groan and weep but also to be sad and care ridden.  These paradoxes proceed, for the most part, from idle men who, exercising themselves more in speculation than in action, can do nothing but invent such paradoxes for us.  Yet we have nothing to do with this iron philosophy which also by our Lord and Master has condemned not only by his word, but also by his example.  For he groaned and wept both over his own and others’ misfortunes.  And he taught his disciples in the same way:  ‘The world,’ he says, ‘will rejoice; but you will be sorrowful and will weep’ [John 16:20].  And that no one might turn it into a vice, he openly proclaimed, ‘Blessed are those who mourn’ [Matthew 5:4].  No wonder!  For if all weeping is condemned, what shall we judge concerning the Lord himself, from whose body tears of blood trickled down [Luke 22:44]?  If all fear is branded as unbelief, how shall we account for that dread with which, we read, he was heavily stricken [Matthew 26:37; Mark 14:33]?  If all sadness displeases us, how will it please us that he confesses his soul ’sorrowful even to death’ [Matthew 26:38]?”  (Institutes III.VIII.8)