Joy is best sown in broken ground.
– Jack Wellman –
Hardship
Focus on God’s mercy – Thomas Watson
Do not look upon your troubles as to forget your mercies.
– Thomas Watson –
The difficulty and joy of life – Gladys Aylward
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.
– Gladys Aylward –
Believe, don’t fear – Lottie Moon
Only believe, don’t fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it.
– Lottie Moon –
Faith destroyed by suffering – Richard Wurmbrand
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.
– Richard Wurmbrand –
Victory over all circumstances – Eric Liddell
Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.
– Eric Liddell –
When circumstances wreck our lives – Eric Liddell
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God’s love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.
– Eric Liddell –
Success and Sacrifice – Adoniram Judson
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
– Adoniram Judson –
A way through difficulty – WT Purkiser
God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.
– WT Purkiser –