Hardship

March 11, 2015

And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.

– Watchman Nee –

March 10, 2015

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

– Robert Murray McCheyne –

March 9, 2015

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.

– G. Campbell Morgan –

March 8, 2015

The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, “Here comes my food!”

– Watchman Nee –

March 7, 2015

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

– Alan Redpath –

March 4, 2015

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “The rejoicing of hope.”

– William Gurnall –

March 1, 2015

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

– Oswald Chambers –

February 10, 2015

It is not the greatness of our troubles as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

– Hudson Taylor –

December 20, 2014

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Romania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

– Richard Wurmbrand –