Trials

October 13, 2014

 The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

– Billy Sunday –

September 27, 2014

I have been a Christian for over fifty years, but I have never heard God’s voice so clearly as in these days. When the world is at peace, not very many people diligently seek God. Only at such times as these of persecution and disorder by the hands of Satan do believers awaken in the faith.
– Elder Park –
from “If I Perish” by Esther Ahn Kim

September 17, 2014

Sometimes God brings us into the Red Sea just to show His power in getting us out.

– Anonymous –

September 13, 2014

No, it is so good to know that God never makes a mistake. Once we will understand that when we are in heaven, but now already we can know very much from the Word of God. This book shows us that God has no problems with the world and with your and my life. God has no problems, only plans. There is never panic in heaven. And the thing that you and I must do is look in the right direction. Look unto Jesus.

– Corrie ten Boom –

September 6, 2014

The flowers smell sweetest after a shower;
vines bear the better for bleeding;
the walnut-tree is most fruitful when most beaten;
saints spring and thrive most internally,
when they are most externally afflicted.
Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Manasseh’s chain was more profitable to him than his crown.
All of the stones that came about Stephen’s ears
did but knock him closer to Christ, the corner-stone.

– Thomas Brooks –

August 20, 2014

A right-spirited saint is made of mettle that will not wear out.

– Thomas Watson –

August 19, 2014

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them. He proportions the frequency and weight of them—to what our case requires. Let us trust in His skill—and thank Him for His prescription!

– John Newton –

August 2, 2014

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

– Hudson Taylor –

July 6, 2014

It would be no better than madness to despair of the providence of God now.

– Eric Ludy –