We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
– Oswald Chambers –
Trials
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 –
Hold on and persevere – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Affliction of the godly and wicked – Thomas Watson
Affliction of the godly is like bruising spices, which are most sweet and fragrant. Affliction of the wicked is like pounding weeds, which makes them more unsavory.
– Thomas Watson –