#thorn road

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From “Fighting to the Death with the Asbestos Man!” in Strange Tales #111, August 1963. Stan Lee plot, Ernie Hart script, Dick Ayers pencils & inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Sam Harold letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[gabriellakw]

"You who know, O LORD, remember and take notice of me." - Jeremiah 15:15

He knows.

[gabriellakw]

“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”

CS Lewis, The Great Divorce 

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By affliction, the Lord separates the sin He hates from the soul that He loves.

William Secker

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“Not only is all your affliction momentary, not only is all your affliction light in comparison to eternity and the glory there, but all of it is totally meaningful. Every millisecond of your pain from the fallen nature of fallen man, every millisecond of your misery in the path of obedience is producing a peculiar glory you will get because of that. I don’t care if it was cancer or criticism. I don’t care if it was slander or sickness. It wasn’t meaningless. It’s doing something. It’s not meaningless. Of course you can’t see what it’s doing. Don’t look to what is seen. When your mom dies, when your kid dies, when you got cancer at forty, when a car creams into the sidewalk and takes her out, don’t say it’s meaningless. It’s not. It’s working for you an eternal weight of glory. Therefore, therefore do not lose heart, but take these truths and day by day focus on them. Preach them to yourself every morning. Get alone with God and preach His Word into your mind until your heart sings with confidence that you are new and cared for.”

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Pain, if sanctified, creates tenderness for others.

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THE HAND OF GOD THIS DIREST CURSE TO GOOD TRANSFORMS;

PUREST AIR IS BORN FROM STORMS.

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"No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire." - George MacDonald