No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.
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Related You’ve no idea the restraint I’ve created. A word, which in a past life, never held special mean... COCO J. GINGER The Protestants taught their followers that faith is needed for hard work because every hardship on ... SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and... ORISON SWETT MARDEN The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience. STERLING K. BROWN For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God., ... BIBLE Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll... MILAN KUNDERA As a mother you never expect to bury your child, not in the sense that I had to go through. JEAN PARKER More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and... HORACE MANN loving someone is weakness .as well as strength for self . which one you want to use ? LITYMUNSHI I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's t... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if... WILLIAM H. SEWARD You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested... J. K. ROWLING There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We've been given no reasons for the delay, so we have no explanation. But if you see the rapidity at... LISA VETTEN And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass ov... KAHLIL GIBRAN Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crush... SHERI L. DEW Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but und... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN There is no other art in which you are your own artistic tool. It is so full. You use your body, you... LAURA THOMASSON You're the one taking all the romance out of this," he said. "It's supposed to go, 'that was so brav... TUI T. SUTHERLAND God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe... JOHN PIPER Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. BIBLE Do not care what other people say if you know what you are doing is right as long as your conscience... NISHI DE SILVA People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can g... BELLA POLLEN Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to h... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu... OSHO Explain it to me." But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason ... SARAH DESSEN Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature... NAPOLEON HILL You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which... MARY OLIVER you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al... THOMAS HARDY Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of... HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ I’m so thankful for every hardship, and every ending I’ve endured; if it wasn’t for adversity,... SCOTTIE SOMERS Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this l... RAINER MARIA RILKE There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Could you possibly have settled down to the old life and forgotten the fairyland through which you h... ERNEST SIMPSON Everybody has their own strength & weakness and it is only when you accept everything that you are &... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. LATIN PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have LATIN PROVERB You live through each memory you have hidden inside me. Through the places, we had been to and throu... AKSHAY VASU You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go thr... CARA DELEVINGNE Trust your struggle. Get over life's frightening moments without losing confidence with faith in you... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives i... JAMES DENNEY Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that are put to yo... MICHEL FOUCAULT Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the deser... JIM STURGESS Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious sh... OG MANDINO There is no love greater than that which trapped you as a silly a Spring day, and you never felt the... MARIANA FULGER Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know t... JERRY BRIDGES Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As... EOIN COLFER And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness. CRISS JAMI The law of attraction is synonymous to the law of sacrifice, in which you get in return what you are... FORREST CURRAN Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all ... LEO TOLSTOY Pat told me you would never believe it unless you saw it with your own eyes. All of their homes have... JEANETTE NIKOLAS You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you... WILLIAM LAW All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travele... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your hea... CALVIN & HOBBES Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through.
No matter how your hea... CINDERELLA I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He se... C.S. LEWIS Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD M. BARUCH Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in mult... BIBLE You must have to stand with courage in what you believe is right. People may try to deter you from y... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 No one can deny that the New Testament has variety a... JAMES DENNEY Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial SOPHOCLES All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm l... JAY CROWNOVER I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that
charity begins at home"
And his, I p... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th... THOMAS BECKET Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no ... OG MANDINO Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which h... GEORGE ELIOT You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living.... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your hear... SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is real until tested.
You never know what you can do.
Until when the odds are against you,
y... TOM KRAUSE As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of cont... EMMANUEL TENEY As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of con... EMMANUEL TENEY Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no... ECKHART TOLLE You're not limited to the sky as seen from the Earth. You can actually go up into the sky and fly th... MARK WEBB Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. “If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look... DIANNA HARDY Only that which is attained through effortlessness will never be a burden to you, and only that whic... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write not... J.C. RYLE It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you ne... PATRICK NESS Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hard... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they mig... GREGORY GALLOWAY Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace...a... ROY LESSIN Drive inner strength by overcoming the adversity with your fighting spirit. It is your fighting spir... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Life's lesson's; keep faith and keep getting back up you are given strength through time JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this insi... SERGEI LAVROV What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as y... ANDRE GIDE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ... AYN RAND I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and you... PATRICK BRONTë Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav... PABLO PICASSO
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(CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wishing gate opens into nothing. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ... CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure... CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ... CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you... CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. CHARLES SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. CHARLES SPURGEON Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is... CHARLES SPURGEON What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. CHARLES SPURGEON In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur... CHARLES SPURGEON You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ... CHARLES SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. CHARLES SPURGEON I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been a... CHARLES SPURGEON I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make mu... CHARLES SPURGEON Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. CHARLES SPURGEON I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ... CHARLES SPURGEON I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to p... CHARLES SPURGEON Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for j... CHARLES SPURGEON We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi... CHARLES SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one... CHARLES SPURGEON True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - ... CHARLES SPURGEON A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world... CHARLES SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. CHARLES SPURGEON Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatr... CHARLES SPURGEON Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's su... CHARLES SPURGEON We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. CHARLES SPURGEON The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo... CHARLES SPURGEON The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ... CHARLES SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. CHARLES SPURGEON There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at... CHARLES SPURGEON After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w... CHARLES SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. CHARLES SPURGEON We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro... CHARLES SPURGEON Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so... CHARLES SPURGEON There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas... CHARLES SPURGEON The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ... CHARLES SPURGEON O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ... CHARLES SPURGEON The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe... CHARLES SPURGEON Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast... CHARLES SPURGEON A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments... CHARLES SPURGEON Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris... CHARLES SPURGEON If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ... CHARLES SPURGEON A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. CHARLES SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark. CHARLES SPURGEON A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a... CHARLES SPURGEON Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne... CHARLES SPURGEON I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that... CHARLES SPURGEON In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim... CHARLES SPURGEON Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you? CHARLES SPURGEON