You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Hardship
The Enrichment of Adversity – Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
– Billy Graham –
Scripture Teaches Us – John Flavel
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
– John Flavel –
Interruptions are Real Life – CS Lewis
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
– CS Lewis –
You were made for this time in history – Dale Partridge
This generation of Christians was made for this time in history. Those strong-willed kids of yours … they were made for the heat that’s coming. That bold husband or that theologian of a wife you have … they were designed for this coming rise in hostility. God made all of us who are alive for this very moment, and He will give each of His children the grace required for what’s ahead.
– Dale Partridge –
Complete Trust in God – Elisabeth Elliot
Are we still willing to place our complete trust in God, believing that He really does know what He’s doing?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Content to Travel Uphill – Jonathan Edwards
The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Wooing Us To Heaven – Charles Spurgeon
Jesus uses our trials to wean us from earth and woo us to heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon –
When God takes something from you – Thomas Manton
If God takes anything from us, let us bless the name of the Lord.
– Thomas Manton –