The difference between ordeal and adventure is your attitude.
– Mark Boyter –
Trials
Seeing our sin in our difficulty – Thomas Watson
We can best see the ugly visage of sin, in the looking-glass of affliction.
– Thomas Watson –
Praying with eyes on God – Oswald Chambers
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
– Oswald Chambers –
Jesus is here – Corrie ten Boom
Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Impossible opportunities – Charles Swindoll
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
– Charles Swindoll –
Death is a gain – Charles Spurgeon
The Christian need not dread sickness, for he has nothing to lose, but everything to gain, by death.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Affliction is good – Thomas Watson
Afflictions work for good, as they conform us to Christ. His life was a series of sufferings—”a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” Isaiah 53:3. He wept, and bled! Was His head crowned with thorns—and do we think to be crowned with roses? It is good to be like Christ—though it be by sufferings!
– Thomas Watson –
The work of affliction – Thomas Watson
Affliction works out sin—and works in grace.
– Thomas Watson –
Peace Amidst Trouble – Thomas Watson
If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
– Thomas Watson –