It would seem that we have designed a modern-day rendition of carrying the Cross that doesn’t give us splinters, revilement, and death. We want the benefits of the Cross but we don’t want to carry it.
– Eric Ludy –
Hardship
Nothing Is Too Big For God To Accomplish
Nothing is too big for God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!
– Unknown –
Truth and God Must Be Earnestly Sought – AB Simpson
God has hidden every precious thing in such a way that it is a reward to the diligent, a prize to the earnest, but a disappointment to the slothful soul. All nature is arrayed against the lounger and the idler. The nut is hidden in its thorny case; the pearl is buried beneath the ocean waves; the gold is imprisoned in the rocky bosom of the mountains; the gem is found only after you crush the rock which encloses it; the very soil gives its harvest as a reward to the laboring farmer. So truth and God must be earnestly sought.
– AB Simpson –
Christianity Rubs The World The Wrong Way – Vance Havner
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
– Vance Havner –
Raptured from Responsibility – Leonard Ravenhill
Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Laying Bare the Evils of the Age – Horatius Bonar
Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem, or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not. Rather than that they should perish, he will allow his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning.
– Horatius Bonar –
What God Can Do With A Broken Heart – Samuel Chadwick
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Blessing Through Difficulty and Humility – AW Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
– AW Tozer –
Afflictions Prepare the Soul – Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
– Richard Sibbes –