“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.” LifeMayMomentsSeemsLife IsSufferingBlackImaginationOur LivesBearsHorrorLowsLipsCloudsTrialsDesertInstantSubstitutesContrastDreadThirstCurtainsBrightnessTransientHeavinessRespite Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“At times it may seem that our trials are focused on areas of our lives and parts of our souls with which we seem least able to cope. Since personal growth is an intended outcome of these challenges, it should come as no surprise that the trials can be very personal-almost laser guided to our particular needs or weaknesses.” NeedsShouldMaySoulSeemsAbleGrowthChallengesOur LivesParticularWeaknessAreasPersonal GrowthSurpriseFocusedTrialsOutcomesLasers Author:Paul V. Johnson
“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.” LifeSoulPlayUseDreamRealitySpiritualLife IsGamesOur LivesDutyRelationNobleSelfishSensesFlyingTrialsWornToilInsignificantWorn OutAscensionWeavers Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.” YearsMaySoulLastsOpportunityJesusWinningChristWalksPathOur LivesJourneyCenturyDutyConflictDifficultyDetermineTrialsHillsHeightMarchNew YearLast YearClosestFellowshipSunnyNew Opportunity Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.” YearsEndsChristianLordKindnessOur LivesWaveChristian InspirationalTrialsChristian LifeLoving KindnessPrevious Years Author:Hudson Taylor
“God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.” MadeGraceOur LivesBrokenLowsDeeperTrialsDependentPreachingWinsome Author:John Piper