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
Hardship
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
July 5, 2012
If we are not disposed meekly to bear injuries, we are not fitted to live in the world, for in it we must expect to meet with many injuries from men.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from his sermon “Charity Disposes Us Meekly to Bear the Injuries Received from Others”
July 2, 2012
We simply can’t trust God’s power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.
– David Wilkerson –
July 1, 2012
Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, they glory in my valley.
– The Valley of Vision –
A collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
June 12, 2012
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Our Brilliant Heritage