There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.