Trials - Tribulations
If God brings us into the trial he will be with us in the trial, and at length bring us out, more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross. [TBR]
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The same God that led Moses into Midian can bring us out of any depths into which affliction may have cast us. [ROOS]
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After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks. [TBR]
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Let us not make much ado about our sufferings. Our Master fared far worse. If personal innocence and unswerving benevolence could screen any one, our Lord had never met a rebuff. [ROOS]
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. [TBR]
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It is better to go with difficulty to heaven than with ease to hell. [TDOR]
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Look more at the latter end of a Christian than the beginning of his affliction. Look not upon Lazarus lying at Dives’s door, but lying in Abraham’s bosom. [PRASD]
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This short storm [of life] will end in an everlasting calm, this short night will end in a glorious day, that shall never have end. [PRASD]
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The waves did but lift Noah’s ark nearer to heaven; and the higher the waters grew, the more near the ark was lifted up to heaven. Afflictions do lift up the soul to more rich, clear, and full enjoyments of God. [PRASD]
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Let me be ground with the teeth of wild beasts, if I may be God’s pure wheat.