Quotes on trials and afflictions from Charles Spurgeon
by dmsh · 15 things on NewTwos
- I am afraid that all the grace that I have got out of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable. What do I not owe to the crucible and the furnace, the bellows that have blown up the coals, and the hand which has thrust me into the heat?
- I am sure I have derived more real benefit and permanent strength and growth in grace, and every precious thing, from the furnace of affliction, than I have ever derived from prosperity…
- I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days…
- I can bear my personal testimony that the best piece of furniture that I ever had in the house was a cross. I do not mean a material cross; I mean the cross of affliction and trouble…
- I owe more than I can tell to the graver's tool, and I feel the lines of its cutting even now…
- In shunning a trial we are seeking to avoid a blessing…
- None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials…
- On some few occasions I have had troubles which I could not tell to any but my God, and I thank God I have, for I learned more of my Lord then that at any other time…
- Our troubles have always brought us blessings, and they always will. They are the dark chariots of bright grace…
- Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of…
- The anvil, the fire and the hammer are the making of us…
- The Christian gains by his losses. He acquires health by his sickness. He wins friends through his bereavements, and he becomes a conqueror through his defeats…
- There are some of your graces which would never be discovered if it were not for your trials…
- There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial…
- We find no sword-blades so true in metal as those which have been forged in the furnace of soul-trouble.