The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Hardship
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
July 16, 2012
It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness
July 15, 2012
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
July 13, 2012
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
July 7, 2012
For this life, being a continual warfare, we must never expect to have rest from our spiritual adversary the devil, or to say, our combat with him is finished, till, with our blessed master, we bow down our heads, and give up the ghost.
– George Whitefield –
July 6, 2012
Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when He denies:
Afflictions, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God