I will stay in this prison until moss grows on my eyelids before disobeying God.
– John Bunyan –
Hardship
November 17, 2013
These wounds were meant to purchase me. These drops of blood were shed to obtain me. I am not my own today. I belong to another. I have been bought with a price. And I will live every moment of this day so that the Great Purchaser of my soul will receive the full reward of His suffering.
– Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf –
November 14, 2013
… this I know: you will regret nothing when you look back, except lack of faith or fortitude or love. You will never regret having thrown all to the winds in order to follow your Master and Lord. Nothing will seem too much to have done or suffered, when, in the end, we see Him and the marks of His wounds; nothing will ever seem enough.
– Amy Carmichael –
November 1, 2013
When the house churches heard about the arrest of 36 of the 39 workers, do you think they were disillusioned? Far from it! Believers all around the nation lifted up holy hands before the Lord and with tears streaming down their cheeks they thanked the Lord for performing the great miracle of getting three Chinese missionaries out of China! We have learned to be thankful for any advance of the gospel.
– from Back To Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission –
September 23, 2013
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford –
September 22, 2013
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
– George Macdonald –
September 21, 2013
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– DL Moody –
July 19, 2013
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
– David Wilkerson –
June 29, 2013
Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit. … A little boy named Andrew was shot by a Muslim 5 times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, “I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don’t kill me! But I will not deny Him!” He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt!
– Paul Washer –