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1. All sunshine makes the desert.
2. Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
3. The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.
4. Suffering overcomes the mind's inertia, develops the thinking powers, opens up a new world, and drives the soul to action.
5. As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
6. We darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing.
7. "Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills."
8. "Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
9. "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
10. "No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered."
11. "Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's."
12. "Jesus promised the disciples three things---that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble."
13. "Christian, remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity."
14. "The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man."
15. "The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them."
16. "We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come."
17. "At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found."
18. "Bless you, prison, for having been in my life."
19. "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
20. "Grace grows best in winter."
21. "They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
22. "Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with."
23. "God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments."
24. "Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil."
25. "We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
26. "It is the crushed grape that yields the wine."
27. "God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
28. "A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world."
29. "If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning."
30. "Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer."
31. Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
32. "The whole way from Syria to Rome, chained as I am to half a score of soldiers, who only grow more insolent the more bribes they are given. I look forward to the real lions that have been prepared for me. Oh I pray, as I will find them swift. I am going to make overtures to them, so that they may devour me with all speed."
