God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –
For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.
– Thomas Carlyle –
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.
– David Shibley –
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity… Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
– John Calvin –
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– Dwight L. Moody –
My experience was that the less I spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable joy all the day long, and every day was my happy experience.
– Hudson Taylor –
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Complete John Ploughman