>>16744283“As men cherish young plants at first, and fence them about to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown, they remove them, and then leave them to the wind and weather, so “God besets His children first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards exposes them to storms and winds, because they are better able to bear it. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is free from troubles. It is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.”
— Richard Sibbes
“Affliction, doubtless, is not joyous, but grievous: but it qualifies us for services for which we should otherwise be unfit.”
— Charles Simeon
“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context of the sovereignty of God.”
— R.C. Sproul
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The more bitter the vessel of grief, the sweeter the cup of consolation; the heavier weight of trial here, the brighter the crown of glory hereafter.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.”
-- Charles Spurgeon
“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”
— Charles Spurgeon
