The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

The wisdom of God is seen in making the most desperate evils turn to the good of his children. As several poisonable ingredients, wisely tempered by the skill of the artist, make a sovereign medicine, so God makes the most deadly afflictions co-operate for the good of his children. He purifies them, and prepares them for heaven. 2 Cor 4: I7. These hard frosts hasten the spring flowers of glory.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself ... the latter I translate into a new tongue.

That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too." "You