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The Steeling Power of Grace

The grace of God steels the soul in the furnace of affliction and no matter the degree, disappointment or danger, there is Christ present, Christ tomorrow, beside and beneath. It is better to be arrested by God in difficulty than to be free from Him in ease. #itwillbeworthitallwhenweseejesus

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On Unanswered Prayer

"We ask God for silver, and He sends His denials wrapped in gold." 

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Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Hudson Taylor

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Remember it is the very time for faith to work when sight ceases. The greater the difficulties, the easier for faith; as long as there remain certain natural prospects, faith does not get on even as easily as where natural prospects fail.

George Mueller

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Tho' in affliction's furnace tried, Unhurt, on snares and death I'll tread; Tho' sin assail, and hell, thrown wide, Pour all its flames upon my head, Like Moses' bush I'll mount the higher, And flourish, unconsumed, in fire.

Charles Wesley

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If the Lord lifts up the light of His countenance upon you as He has done upon me this day, all your mountains will become molehills.

Samuel Pearce

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The coloured sunsets and starry heavens, the beautiful mountains and the shining seas, the fragrant woods and painted flowers, are not half so beautiful as a soul that is serving Jesus out of love, in the wear and tear of common, unpoetic life.

Faber

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Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but 1 do come. Please root from my heart all those things which 1 have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter avid dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer, 30.

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Priceless as the gift of utterance may be, the practice of silence in some aspects far excels it. Do not think me a Quaker. Well, be it so. Herein I follow George Fox most lovingly; for I am persuaded that most of us think too much of speech, which after all is but the shell of thought. Quiet contemplation, still worship, unuttered rapture, these are mine when my best jewels are before me. Brethren, rob not your heart of the deep sea joys; miss not the far-down life, by for ever babbling among the broken shells and foaming surges of the shore.

Charles Spurgeon, (Lectures to My Students, 51).

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Priceless as the gift of utterance may be, the practice of silence in some aspects far excels it. Do not think me a Quaker. Well, be it so. Herein I follow George Fox most lovingly; for I am persuaded that most of us think too much of speech, which after all is but the shell of thought. Quiet contemplation, still worship, unuttered rapture, these are mine when my best jewels are before me. Brethren, rob not your heart of the deep sea joys; miss not the far-down life, by for ever babbling among the broken shells and foaming surges of the shore. (Lectures to My Students, 51).

Charles Spurgeon

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I will presume to speak to you, my Lord, though I am mere dust and ashes. Now, Lord, look upon me. Your gaze can turn my nothingness into newness, my darkness into light, my misery into joy, my death into life. When I become nothing, I discover both myself and you. You are my salvation, my power, my strength.

Thomas a Kempis

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Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things; but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds. The things we ask for are precious, but we do not realize their preciousness until we have sought for them earnestly.

Charles Spurgeon

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Don’t give up because the pain is intense right now— get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.

Oswald Chambers

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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa

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Arrows of Affliction

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly. –Joseph Caryl

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Blessedness through Brokenness

"We must in our hearts live through Abraham's harsh and bitter experiences if we would know the blessedness which follows them. The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough old miser within us will not lie down and die obedient to our command. He must be torn out of our heart like a plant from the soil; he must be extracted in agony and blood like a tooth from the jaw. He must be expelled from our soul by violence as Christ expelled the money changers from the temple. And we shall need to steel ourselves against his piteous begging, and to recognize it as springing out of self-pity, one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart."

The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer, 29.