Trials

Dealing with concerns – Corrie ten Boom

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

– Corrie ten Boom –

Affliction quickens prayer – Thomas Watson

Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer. Jonah was asleep in the ship—but at prayer in the whale’s belly! Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner—we put no coals to the incense; we scarcely minded our own prayers, and how should God mind them?Then God sends some cross or other affliction to make us take hold of Him. Now their prayers pierced the heavens! In times of trouble, we pray earnestly and fervently.

– Thomas Watson –

The Fullness of Christ – Charles Spurgeon

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else.

– Charles Spurgeon –

When things seem out of control – AW Tozer

When it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who hasn’t surrendered His authority.

– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God

What makes us complain – Hudson Taylor

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

– Hudson Taylor –

God’s love allows suffering – Elisabeth Elliot

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering … The love of God did not protect His own Son… He will not necessarily protect us – not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

– Elisabeth Elliot –