Worthy Sayings of Great Christians

For a man to rejoice in adversity is not grievous to him who loves; for so to joy is to joy in the Cross of Christ.
~Thomas Kempis~
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Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
~Anonymous~
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The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very waves of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes, and we land safe on the opposite shore.
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik~
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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but some times the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
~Matthew Henry~
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Afflictions are God's shepherd dog to drive us back to the fold.
~Unknown~
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By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When He makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
~Sir John Powell~
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The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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As sure as God puts his children into the furnace of affliction,He will be with them in it.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet Almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, though bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to Him.
~Isaak Walton~
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The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint: their wings are my protest in favor of the immorality of the soul.
~E. C. Burne-Jones~
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Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
~Francis de Sales~
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It is impossible that the church should ever unconditionally identify itself with human aspirations; it must retain the integrity of its judgment and yet be recognized as the champion of all that is good and true in the changing life of men.
~Stephen C. Neill~
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God has never ceased to be the one true im of all right human aspiration.
~Alexander Vinet~
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Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.
~Anonymous~
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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living. It is that plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.
~Jeremy Collier~