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"One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain he brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory." ~Jerry Bridges
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"If your reputation is perfectly intact on every front, if you never irritate anyone, if you never make a stir, you might be doing something wrong - or more likely, you're not doing something right. "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets"(Luke 6:26). The Bible has a crystal clear promise: All who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Tim. 3:12). If we never experience persectution, if we never make a single soul angry (as Christ often did), something is probably wrong." ~R Terry
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"The little troubles and worries of life may be as a stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things." ~Henry Ward Beecher
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"God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them." ~John H Aughey
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"God may be in the process of pruning something out of your life at this very moment. If this is the case, don't fight it. Instead, welcome it, for His pruning will make you more fruitful and bring greater glory to the Father." ~Rick Yohn
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"It is true that He does sometimes require of us things that to others seem hard. But when the will is once surrendered, the revolutionized life plans become just the plans that are most pleasant, and the things that to others seem hard, are just the things that are easiest and most delightful. Do not let Satan deceive you into being afraid of God's plans for your life." ~R.A. Torrey
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"Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out, let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love." ~Kay Arthur
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"The acid test of our faith in the promises of God is never found in the easy-going, comfortable ways of life, but in the great emergencies, the times of the storm and of stress, the days of adversity, when all human aid fails." ~Ethel Bell
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"In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trails come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life's fiercest storms." ~Hannah Whitall Smith
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"What cause have they who have an interest in Christ, to glory in the Redeemer! They are often beset with many evils, and many mighty enemies surround them on every side, with open mouths ready to devour them. But they need not fear any of them. They may glory in Christ, the rock of their salvation, who appears so gloriously above them all. They may triumph over Satan, over this evil world, over guilt, and over death. For as their Redeemer is mighty, and is so exalted about all evil, so shall they also be exalted in him. They are now, in a sense, so exalted. For nothing can hurt them. Christ carries them, as on eagle's wings, high out of the reach of all evils, so that they cannot come near them, to do them any real harm." ~Jonathan Edwards
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"Perhaps the Spirit of God is saying to many of us today, "I want to minister through you. But before I can ever minister through you, I must minister to you." Don't despise the educational experience of your drying brook. Don't throw in the towel... Let patience have her perfect work, that you may be mature and complete. He wants to make you just like His Son." ~Howard G. Hendricks
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"You will know more of Jesus in one sanctified trial, than in wading through a library of volumes, or listening to a lifetime of sermons." ~Octavius Winslow
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"We turn to God when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them."
~Charles West
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"An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement, I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' ~Billy Graham
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"Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations come to the idle." ~Charles Spurgeon
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"Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts on our path, is the perfect preparation only He can see." ~Corrie Ten Boom
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"When one has the Word of God as the basis of his convictions, he may calmly stand against the full tide of human opinion and prejudice." ~C.H. Mackintosh
