Trials

August 10, 2015

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

– John Wesley –

August 4, 2015

I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.

– Charles Spurgeon –

July 31, 2015

A man should be like tea; his real strength [character] appearing when he gets in hot water.

– Unknown –

June 19, 2015

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

– CT Studd –

May 28, 2015

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most, especially when your teacher is the Lord Jesus Himself…No athlete complains when the training is hard. He thinks of the game, the race, and the prize.

– Corrie ten Boom –

May 27, 2015

We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgens but we don’t want to pay the price they paid.

– Paul Washer –

March 12, 2015

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe – the glorification of the grace and power of his Son—the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

– John Piper –

March 11, 2015

And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.

– Watchman Nee –

March 10, 2015

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

– Robert Murray McCheyne –