For this life, being a continual warfare, we must never expect to have rest from our spiritual adversary the devil, or to say, our combat with him is finished, till, with our blessed master, we bow down our heads, and give up the ghost.
– George Whitefield –
Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when He denies:
Afflictions, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
If we are not disposed meekly to bear injuries, we are not fitted to live in the world, for in it we must expect to meet with many injuries from men.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from his sermon “Charity Disposes Us Meekly to Bear the Injuries Received from Others”
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
– AW Tozer –
from The Root of Righteousness
If I am adopted, I have become a child; God is no longer my judge, but my Father.
– DL Moody –
from his sermon “The Eighth Chapter of Romans”
We simply can’t trust God’s power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.
– David Wilkerson –
Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, they glory in my valley.
– The Valley of Vision –
A collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
Save heaven itself there is nought more blissful than to enjoy that spirit of adoption.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from his sermon “The Fatherhood of God”
The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For he that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself . . .
– Thomas a Kempis –
from The Imitation of Christ