Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
