The fear of God is a Christian’s safety. He is invulnerable; nothing can hurt him. Plunder him of his money, he carries a treasure about him of which he cannot be robbed (Isa. 33:6). Cast him into prison his conscience is free; kill his body, it shall rise again. He who has on this breastplate of God’s fear may be shot at, but can never be shot through.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
Take the very hardest thing in your life — the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
– Lilias Trotter –
With God, the most of mosts is lighter than nothing, and without Him the least of leasts is heavier than any burden.
– One of the ladies of the Scottish Covenant –
You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hill-tops.
– John Bunyan –
Yet more, Oh my God, more toil, more agony, more suffering for Thee.
– Francis Xavier –
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
– Horace Bushnell –