>>16744274“All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love. Not infrequently our God brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.”
– Hudson Taylor
“The Lord measures your temptations and weighs your strength. He gives the shoulders, and fits the burden, and will never lay on you more than He will enable you to bear.”
— Isaac Ambrose
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word has easier entrance.”
— Richard Baxter
“Those who sing loudest in the Kingdom will be those who on earth had the greatest bodily suffering. We pity them now, but then we shall almost envy them.”
— Andrew Bonar
“I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ.”
— David Brainerd
“Afflictions are a golden key by which the Lord opens the rich treasure of his word to his people’s souls.”
— Thomas Brooks
“Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.”
— Thomas Brooks
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
— John Bunyan
“Your mercies are more than your afflictions.”
— Jeremiah Burroughs
So very few ever find this path. It's not one very many wealthy and happy people ever choose as it often means giving everything up in this world, so I praise Jesus for taking it away from me Himself!
