An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
– GK Chesterton –
from On Running After One’s Hat
Hardship
Fixed in Heaven – Thomas Brooks
Although you see the stars sometimes by their reflections in a puddle, or in the bottom of a well, yes, in a stinking ditch; yet the stars have their situation in heaven. So, though you see a godly man in a poor, miserable, low, despised condition for the things of this world, yet he is fixed in heaven, in the region of heaven: “Who has raised us up,” says the apostle, “and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph 2:6).
– Thomas Brooks –
from Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
Cling to the Gospel in Suffering – Charles Spurgeon
The more I suffer the more I cling to the gospel. It is true, and the fires only burn it into clearer certainty to my soul. I have lived on the gospel, and I can die on it. Never question it.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Dungeon, a Palace – Vibia Perpetua
The dungeon became to me as it were a palace.
– Vibia Perpetua –
The Bravest Man To Ever Live – William Gurnall
For bravery none compares with our Lord. He never turned His head from danger, not even when hell’s hatred and heaven’s justice appeared against Him.
– William Gurnall –
God Give Me Humility, Zeal, Love, and Focus – George Whitefield
God give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.
– George Whitefield –
A Dark Hour Makes Jesus Bright – Robert Murray McCheyne
A dark hour makes Jesus bright.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Before the Sleepless, Lukewarm, Faithless, Namby-pamby Christian World – CT Studd
We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, yes, before the sleepless, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.
– CT Studd –
What God Wants To Do Through Us – Oswald Chambers
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
– Oswald Chambers –