The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Gleanings Among The Sheaves_ [1869], "Sorrow's Discipline"
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42657/42657-h/42657-h.htm
It is a sign of growth in grace when Christians increase in a sense of their own unworthiness and insufficiency, and in dependence on God.- Jonathan Edwards@Edwards_SDG
For a society awash in expressive individualism, the greatest commandment is to be yourself and the second is like it: to affirm and applaud whatever self your neighbour chooses to be. - The Gospel Coalition@TGC
When all looks fair about, and thou seest not a cloud so big
as a Hand to threaten thee, forget not the Wheel of things: think of
sullen vicissitudes, but beat not thy brains to foreknow them. Be
armed against such obscurities rather by submission than
fore-knowledge. The Knowledge of future evils mortifies present
felicities, and there is more content in the uncertainty or ignorance
of them. -- Sir Thomas Browne, _Christian Morals_
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