When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death thinking of what they are in comparison to the sufferings of my blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ.
— Martin Luther
Daily Christian quotes to direct, inspire, encourage, and help ordinary Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives!
When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death thinking of what they are in comparison to the sufferings of my blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ.
— Martin Luther
The grand design of God in all the afflictions that befall his people is to bring them nearer and closer to himself.
— Thomas Brooks
We often learn more under the rod that strikes us, than under the staff that comforts us.
— Stephen Charnock
In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it – is true godly patience.
— Stephen Charnock
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s own or real life. The truth is of course that what one call the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.
— C. S. Lewis