All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
– George Whitefield –
Hardship
The Gospel Always Brings Life – Jackie Pullinger
The gospel always brings life to the receiver and death to the giver. If the gospel brought death to Jesus Christ why would we think that in preaching the gospel it would be any less for us?
– Jackie Pullinger –
Difficult and Left Untried – GK Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
– GK Chesterton –
Clothe Me With Thy Might – Evan Roberts
Keep me. Lord, from fainting
In this fierce fight,
When the foe is rising,
Clothe me with Thy might.
– Evan Roberts –
Nothing too Great and Nothing too Small – AW Pink
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
– AW Pink –
Challenged or Changed – Leonard Ravenhill
The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God Takes Away the World – Thomas Watson
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
– Thomas Watson –
Secret Formula of the Saints – Samuel Rutherford
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Darkness, Loneliness, and Trouble – Robert Murray McCheyne
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –