Saints are made in the furnace of affliction. Great times of trials provide a chance to prove and demonstrate the supernatural!
– JT Crane –
Hardship
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 –
No Problems, Only Plans – Corrie ten Boom
God has no problems, only plans.
– Corrie ten Boom –
An Inconvenience Reconsidered – GK Chesterton
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
– GK Chesterton –
from On Running After One’s Hat
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 –