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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."
