A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord. — Walter Cradock Copy Share Image
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.” — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it! — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible. — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The torments of hell abide for ever… If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven? — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all… — Plato Copy Share Image
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have… — Vavasor Powell Copy Share Image
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
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