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The document discusses how many authors and religious figures throughout history have viewed trials. It provides quotes from over 30 sources discussing how trials are used by God to strengthen faith, improve character, drive one closer to God, and prepare one for greater things. While trials are difficult, facing them with faith, trust in God, and a heavenly perspective can help one endure and be made stronger through the process.
The document discusses how many authors and religious figures throughout history have viewed trials. It provides quotes from over 30 sources discussing how trials are used by God to strengthen faith, improve character, drive one closer to God, and prepare one for greater things. While trials are difficult, facing them with faith, trust in God, and a heavenly perspective can help one endure and be made stronger through the process.
The document discusses how many authors and religious figures throughout history have viewed trials. It provides quotes from over 30 sources discussing how trials are used by God to strengthen faith, improve character, drive one closer to God, and prepare one for greater things. While trials are difficult, facing them with faith, trust in God, and a heavenly perspective can help one endure and be made stronger through the process.
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above.
To contemplate all things
as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. Author: A.B. Simpson Topics: Heaven, Trials, Overcoming After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism. Author: Adoniram Judson Topics: Baptism Trials come to prove and improve us. Author: Augustine Topics: Trials Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Author: Charles Spurgeon Topics: Adversity, Trials So surely as the stars are fashioned by His hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Author: Charles Spurgeon Source: Morning and Evening, Morning: March 8. Topics: Trials The trials of a true minister are not few... Let no man who looks for ease of mind and seeks the quietude of life enter the ministry; if he does so he will flee from it in disgust. Author: Charles Spurgeon Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856. Topics: Preaching As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises. Author: David Wilkerson Topics: Trials Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Saviour. Author: Edmund Clowney Topics: Trials, Faith Sorrows and trials are not only like the sand and grit that polish a stone, but I shall be made to taste, through the trouble, what Christ is to me. Author: G.V. Wigram Topics: Trials To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings. Author: George Mueller Topics: Faith, Trials, Endurance God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trialsbefore victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith. Author: George Mueller Topics: Faith, Trials In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trialscome. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith Topics: Trials, Peace Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible. Author: Henry Drummond Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 28. Topics: Trials We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. Author: Henry Ward Beecher Topics: Perseverance, Patience, Trials We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. Author: Henry Ward Beecher Topics: Trials In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial. Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 112. Topics: Trials, Perseverance Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move. Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 179. Topics: Trials Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness. Author: John C. Broger Topics: Anger, Bitterness, Trials Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. In contrast, God's will is for you to be an overwhelming conqueror in all of these tests for His honor and glory. Author: John C. Broger Topics: Trials, Feelings Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Author: John Newton Topics: Trials It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts, else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves and setting up our rest here. Author: John Newton Topics: Trials, Comfort A measure of trials is necessary for the exercise and manifestation of your graces; to give you a more convincing proof of the truth and sweetness of the promises made to a time of affliction; to mortify the body of sin; and to wean you more effectually from the world. Author: John Newton Source: Letters. Topics: Trials Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need. Author: John Newton Source: Letters. Topics: Faith, Trials, Chastisement It belongs to your calling of God as a minister, that you should have a taste of the various spiritual trials which are incident to the Lord's people, that thereby you may know how to speak a word in season to them that are weary; and it is likewise needful to keep you perpetually attentive to that important admonition, "Without Me ye can do nothing." Author: John Newton Source: The Works of John Newton Topics: Trials God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives. Author: John Piper Source: Feed My Sheep, 2002, p. 259. Topics: Preaching, Trials Sometimes trials come simply to test and purify our faith. Author: Joyce Meyer Topics: Trials Many times Christians face trials and suffering simply because we live in a world full of sin. Author: Joyce Meyer Topics: Trials, Suffering Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships andtrials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously. Author: Lee Roberson Topics: Encouragement, Victory Often, we endure trials seeking God's deliverance from them. Suffering is painful for us to endure or to see those we love endure. While our instinct is to flee trials, remember that even in the midst of suffering, God's will is being done. Author: Paul Chappell Topics: Trials, Suffering Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. Author: Samuel Rutherford Topics: Suffering, Sin, Trials You have to recognize as troubles and trials and tests come into your life you have to recognize that there is a God who sits high and looks low and has all power and has all power in his hand and if you want to communicate with the divine you do it by faith. Author: T.D. Jakes Topics: Struggles, Faith, Trials We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity. Author: Theodore Epp Topics: Life, Eternity, Trials God has a purpose for trials and testings. Author: Warren Wiersbe Topics: Trials Let the trials of life make you a giant, not a midget. Author: Warren Wiersbe Topics: Trials Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you. Author: Warren Wiersbe Topics: Patience, Trials Don't let your trials blow you down; let them lift you up. Author: Woodrow Kroll Topics: Trials The man who has an easy way through life, will be spiritually weak, flabby and impoverished. He won't be able to do all that God wants him to do. But the one who has gone through trialsand testing successfully, will be strong and capable of doing all the will of God. Author: Zac Poonen Topics: Trials
The present benefit of spiritual discipline is a fulfilled, God-blessed, fruitful, and useful life. If you get involved in spiritual gymnastics, the blessings of godliness will carry on into eternity. Although many people spend far more time exercising their bodies than their souls, the excellent servant of Jesus Christ realizes that spiritual discipline is a priority. Author: John MacArthur Source: Qualities of an Excellent Servant. Topics: Discipline, Godliness The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar. Author: John Wesley Topics: Holiness, Learning Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him. Author: Kay Arthur Topics: Prayer, Faith We need a sweeping revival where people confess their sins and get right with God, where folks turn out in bigger crowds at the church house than they do at the ball game, and where the old- time religion still gets top priority! Author: Shelton Smith Topics: Revival
Pastor Rick Warren God always allows a major test before a major blessing. The greater he intends to bless, the bigger the test will be
C. S. Lewis "To become new men means losing what we now call 'ourselves.' Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go." ~ Mere Christianity
Don't let your lips and your lives preach two different messages.
"Contentment is not having what you like, but liking what you have" Ed Lapiz
1. We ought to be Martha and Mary in one; we should do much service, and have much communion at the same time. Category:GraceAuthor:Charles H. Spurgeon 2. Too many learned men, like Pontius Pilate, fix their Greek and Latin and Hebrew over Christ's head, instead of putting it at His feet. Category:Reasoning/Thinking Author:AugustusToplady 3. He that loves a man for money or for meat loves money or meat more than the man. Wherefore he that loves God for any other end than God certainly loves that more than God. Category:LoveAuthor:John Hales 4. He that loves a man for money or for meat loves money or meat more than the man. Wherefore he that loves God for any other end than God certainly loves that more than God. Category:LoveAuthor:John Hales 5. O, how salutary it is, how pleasant, how delightful, to sit alone and in silence, to converse with God, and so to enjoy the only chief good, in whom all good things are found! Category:GODAuthor:Thomas A` Kempis 6. Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great. Category:Faith& Faithfulness Author:George Macdonald 7. Observe, there cannot be a secret Christian....If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men. Category:ChristAuthor:Robert Murray McCheyne 8. Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life. Category:LifeAuthor:Thomas Edison 9. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Category:PerseveranceAuthor:Thomas Edison 10. What actually is the chief mark and element of insanity?....It is reason used without root, reason in the void. The man who begins to think without the proper first principles goes mad... Category:Reasoning/Thinking Author:G.K. Chesterton 11. God wills for us to be attached to nothing aside from Him, whether it be man or a thing or even something conferred on us by Himself. Author: Watchman Nee Topic: Selfishness
FAITH 12.Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith. Author: A.W. Tozer
13. If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? Author: A.W. Tozer
14.Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. Author: A.W. Tozer
15. Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him. Author: Andrew Murray
16. Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation. Author: Andrew Murray
17. Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. Author: Augustine 18.Few are they who by faith touch Him; multitudes are they who throng about Him. Author: Augustine
9. 1Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. Author: Augustine
20. If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. Author: Augustine
21. Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Author: Augustine
22. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. - Amy Carmichael Author: Assorted Authors
23. Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him. - Antony Farindon Author: Assorted Authors 24. Believe in Him and not trust in Him? You might as well say, the Jews did love Him when they nailed Him to the cross. - Antony Farindon Author: Assorted Authors
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Author: D.L. Moody
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Author: Jim Elliot
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. Author: C.S. Lewis Source: from a letter "To Mrs. L."
We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. Author: C.S. Lewis
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. Author: C.S. Lewis Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. Author: C.S. Lewis
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. Author: C.S. Lewis
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Author: Blaise Pascal In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Author: Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith is a gift of God. Author: Blaise Pascal
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. Author: Joel Osteen
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Author: Henry Ward Beecher Faith is spiritualized imagination. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. Author: Charles Wesley
In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer. Author: Charles Wesley
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. Author: Charles Kingsley
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all. Author: Charles Spurgeon The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them. Author: Charles Spurgeon
It was Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures. - Christopher Columbus Author: Assorted Authors
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. Author: Corrie Ten Boom Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. Author: E.M. Bounds
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith. Author: E.M. Bounds
Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty. Author: Francis de Sales
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Author: G.K. Chesterton __________________________________________________________________________________ The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.