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“The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!”

Persons Suffering Jesus Christ Prayer Powerful Acceptance Jesus Christ Sick Sickness Martyrdom Sick Person

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.”

Suffering Christ Grief Dying Sick Heal Sickness Sick And Dying God Heals

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.”

Knows Heart Art Christ Justice Sweet My Heart Died Sickness Dread

Book:Hymns for the Chamber of Sickness

Source: Hymns for the Chamber of Sickness

“Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.”

Knows Joy Suffering Christ Prayer Loss Simple Study Mystery Crosses Sickness Destroying Shut Up Flavor Penetrate Wondrous I Love Him

Book:Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.

Source: Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.

“Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.”

Ifs Giving Shows Christian Suffering Christ Hours Poverty Trouble Blood Sickness Affliction Persecution Glorify Make Happy

Book:The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne

Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne

“The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.”

Purpose Suffering Christ Common Weakness Destruction Accomplish Satan Sickness Destructive Persecution Purifying

Author:John Piper

“In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.”

Should Body Earth Christ Becoming Should Have Sickness Mastery Body Of Christ Parts Of The Body

Author:James Gordon Lindsay