Consider this, Christian: that all your trials and troubles, calamities and miseries, crosses and losses which you meet in this world are all the hell you shall ever have!!
– Thomas Brookes –
Hold Christ More Closely – JC Ryle
Let us hold to Christ more closely, love him more heartily, live for him more thoroughly, copy him more exactly, confess him more boldly, follow him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. In sickness it will bring peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fades not away.
– JC Ryle –
from Sickness
The Best is Yet to Be – Corrie ten Boom
When the worst happens in the life of a child of God the best remains, and the very best is yet to be.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Bury the Faults of Your Friends – Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
– Henry Ward Beecher –
1813-1887
No Problems, Only Plans – Corrie ten Boom
God has no problems, only plans.
– Corrie ten Boom –
How Humility Grows Best – Samuel Rutherford
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
– Samuel Rutherford –
1600-1661
Afflictions Prepare the Soul – Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
– Richard Sibbes –
The Distance Between a Problem and Solution – Anonymous
The shortest distance between a problem and the solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
– Anonymous –
July 13, 2012
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –