Suffering

“When God lays men upon their backs, then they look up to heaven. God’s smiting His people is like the musician’s striking upon the violin, which makes it put forth melodious sound. How much good comes to the saints by affliction! When they are pounded they send forth their sweetest smell. Affliction is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit. " All Things for Good " pg. 56”

“It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.”

“After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks.”

“Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.”

“Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.”

“I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.”

“It is the Lord; let Him do whatsoever seemeth good in His eyes.”

“Yet for all my complaints, He was never sweeter and kinder than He is now.”

“I would rather a cloud went over my comforts than that my faith should be hurt.”

“The cup of sufferings is a very bitter cup, and it is but needful that we provide somewhat to sweeten it, that we may be able to receive it with thanksgiving.”

“Troubles will be so much the more sinking and intolerable, by how much the more they steal upon us by way of surprisal.”

“Learn, ye that would have death pleasant, so to rule and square this life, that it may agree in some measure with the life to come.”

“This morning I had a flock, and you had a pastor; but now, behold a pastor without a flock, and a flock without a shepherd.”

“I must choose that my ministry be sealed up by my sufferings, than lengthened out by a lie.”

“A Christian comes to contentment not so much by way of addition, as by way of subtraction.”