You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hill-tops.
– John Bunyan –
Trials
Suffering for Christ – Francis Xavier
Yet more, Oh my God, more toil, more agony, more suffering for Thee.
– Francis Xavier –
God has Girded You for Difficulty – Horace Bushnell
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 –
How to experience the impossible – Eric Ludy
It is our job to obey. It is God’s job to do the impossible.
– Eric Ludy –
Embrace Difficulty – Charles Spurgeon
I’ve learned to kiss the wave that throws us upon the Rock of Ages.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Hardest Thing in Your Life – Lilias Trotter
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 –
An Example of Perseverance – Charles Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Perfectly Trust the Lord – Hannah Whitall Smith
If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls “mounting up with wings as eagles” to the “heavenly places” in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
Our Disappointments are His Appointments – AW Pink
Yes, give thanks for “all things” for, as it has been well said “Our disappointments are but His appointments.”
– AW Pink –
