Favorite Quotes: "My son, give Me your heart" (Prov. 23:26)

"For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke ... the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise... the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor."
-Augustine

"Joseph saw the sun and the moon and the eleven stars worshipping him. Nevertheless, ere that came to pass, God laid him where he could neither see sun nor moon, neither any star of the sky, and that many years; and also undeserved; to nurture him, to humble, to meek, and to teach him God's ways, and to make him apt and meet for the room and honour against he came to it; that he might perceive and feel that it came of God, and that he might be strong in spirit to minister it godly."
-William Tyndale

""He promised the children of Israel a land with rivers of milk and honey; but brought them for the space of forty years into a land, where not only rivers of milk and honey were not, but where so much as a drop of water was not; to nurture them, and to teach them, as a father doth his son, and to do them good at the latter end; and that they might be strong in their spirit and souls, to use his gifts and benefits godly and after his will."
-William Tyndale

"He promised David a kingdom, and immediately stirred up king Saul against him to persecute him; to hunt him, as men do hares with greyhounds, and to ferret him out of every hole, and that for the space of many years; to tame him, to meek him, to kill his lusts; to make him feel other men's diseases; to make him merciful; to make him understand that he was made king to minister and to serve his brethren, and that he should not think that his subjects were made to ministers unto his lusts, and that it were lawful for him to take away from them life and goods at his pleasure."
-William Tyndale
""Mark this also, if God send thee to the sea, and promise to go with thee, and to bring thee safe to land, He will raise up a tempest against thee, to prove whether thou wilt abide by His word, and that thou mayest feel thy faith, and perceive His goodness... If God promise riches, the way thereto is poverty. Whom He loveth, him He chasteneth: whom He exalted, He casteth down: whom He saveth, He damneth first. He bringeth no man to heaven, except He send him to hell first. If He promise life, He slayeth first: when He buildeth, He casteth all down first."
-William Tyndale

""Every affliction is of great benefit to the ungodly. The prodigal never thought of returning to his father's house, until he was humbled by adversity. Hagar while in Abraham's house was ready to domineer over her mistress: but in the wilderness she was meek and humble. Jonah slept while in the ship; but he watched and prayed in the whale's belly. Manasseh lived at Jerusalem like a libertine, and practiced enormous evils; but when in bonds in Babylon, his heart was turned to seek the Lord his God. Bodily sores and diseases have been the means of constraining many to seek after the Lord Jesus, while those in health have made no effort to know Him."
-Daniel Rowlands

""It is a great work to open the eyes of the blind: a greater still, by applying clay and spittle, things more likely, as some think, to take away than to restore sight. 
He sent dreadful darkness on Abraham, when He was preparing to give him the best light. 
He fearfully shook Jacob, when He was going to bless him. 
He smote Paul with blindness, when He was intending to open the eyes of his mind. 
He refused the request of the woman of Canaan for a time, but afterwards she obtained her desire. See therefore that all the paths of the Lord are mercy [Ps. 25:10], and that every thing works together for good to them who love Him [Rom. 8:28]."
-Daniel Rowlands

"But his [Jacob's] life was full of sorrows and grief. As a youth, he fled from home. For twenty years, he was cheated by Laban. The wife of his heart's love--Rachel--died prematurely. The son of his love--Joseph--was sold into slavery. Years later, another one of his dearly loved sons, Benjamin, was detained in Egypt. Repeatedly, he was dealt with by God, meeting misfortune after misfortune. He was stricken by God once, twice, and thrice."
-Watchman Nee

"“to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me” – and in case you missed it – “to keep me from exalting myself!” He says it twice ... Let me tell you something, folks, God blesses us. But while you’re in there praying for blessing and blessing and blessing and blessing, you’d better realize that the more you’re blessed, the more likely you are to need to be – what? – humble. So, the backside of all this blessing you may be pleading for may be painful."
-John F. MacArthur

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