A right-spirited saint is made of mettle that will not wear out.
– Thomas Watson –
Trials
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 –
June 11, 2014
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
– John R. Mott –
May 23, 2014
It is morally impossible to exercise trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and direction. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.
– DE Hoste –
May 20, 2014
As in the book of Daniel when the three young men who were put in the furnace did not smell like fire upon being delivered from it, so the Christians who have been in Communist prisons don’t smell like bitterness against Communists. A flower if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving its perfume. Likewise Christians, tortured by the Communists, rewarded their torturers by love. We brought many jailors to Christ. And we are dominated by one desire: to give Communists who have made us suffer the best we have, the salvation that comes from our Lord Jesus Christ.
– Richard Wurmbrand –
May 3, 2014
To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.
– George Müller –
April 21, 2014
He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then, yours be a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for his failing you, never dream of it-hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
– Charles Spurgeon –