If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Persecution
Losing all but Jesus – Charles Spurgeon
It is no loss to lose all but Jesus.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Affliction quickens prayer – Thomas Watson
Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer. Jonah was asleep in the ship—but at prayer in the whale’s belly! Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner—we put no coals to the incense; we scarcely minded our own prayers, and how should God mind them?Then God sends some cross or other affliction to make us take hold of Him. Now their prayers pierced the heavens! In times of trouble, we pray earnestly and fervently.
– Thomas Watson –
What makes us complain – Hudson Taylor
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
– Hudson Taylor –
If you want to be like Jesus – Leonard Ravenhill
If you want to be like Jesus, remember, He had a wilderness, a Gethsemane, and a Judas.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Entering the Kingdom through tribulation – Dr. JH Jewett
We are not “born again” into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
– Dr. JH Jewett –
Praise and Criticism – John Bunyan
If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
– John Bunyan –
God fits everything for good – Elisabeth Elliot
I am convinced that everything that happens fits into a pattern for good.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
The world and church can’t jog together – Catherine Booth
When the Church and the world can jog comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong. The world has not altered. Its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was, and if Christians were equally faithful and devoted to the Lord, and separated from the world, living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did.
– Catherine Booth –