Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
– CT Studd –
Hardship
September 2, 2012
Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.
– CT Studd –
August 9, 2012
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
– John Wesley –
August 8, 2012
How did Jesus expect His disciples to react under persecution? (In Matthew 5:12 He said), “Rejoice and be glad!” We are not to retaliate like an unbeliever, nor sulk like a child, nor lick our wound in self-pity like a dog, nor just grin a bear it like a Stoic, still less pretend we enjoy it like a masochist. What then? We are to rejoice as a Christian should and even “leap for joy” (Lk. 6:23).
– John Stott –
from The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 52.
August 7, 2012
The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ!
– Thomas Watson –
1600s Puritan
August 6, 2012
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
– Charles Spurgeon –
August 3, 2012
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
– DL Moody –
July 26, 2012
Pray God to send a few men with what the Americans call “grit” in them; men, who: when they know a thing to be right, will not turn away or aside, or stop; men who will persevere all the more because there are difficulties to meet or foes to encounter; who stand all the more true to their Master because they are opposed; who, the more they are thrust into the fire, the hotter they become; who, just like the bow, the further the string is drawn the more powerfully it sends forth its arrows, and so the more they are trodden upon, the more mighty will they become in the cause of truth against error.
– Charles Spurgeon –
July 22, 2012
But if the path we tread be rough and lowly; it is that in which our great Exemplar has gone before. Going down into the valley of humiliation we walk in His footsteps.
– John Dawson –
from The Saviour in the Workshop