We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above.

To contemplate all things

as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts
us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Heaven, Trials, Overcoming
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system
in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a
professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Author: Adoniram Judson
Topics: Baptism
Trials come to prove and improve us.
Author: Augustine
Topics: Trials
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Adversity, Trials
So surely as the stars are fashioned by His hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are
our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the
effect they shall have upon us.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Morning and Evening, Morning: March 8.
Topics: Trials
The trials of a true minister are not few... Let no man who looks for ease of mind and seeks the
quietude of life enter the ministry; if he does so he will flee from it in disgust.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.
Topics: Preaching
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing
pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
Author: David Wilkerson
Topics: Trials
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should
actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will
not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our
Saviour.
Author: Edmund Clowney
Topics: Trials, Faith
Sorrows and trials are not only like the sand and grit that polish a stone, but I shall be made
to taste, through the trouble, what Christ is to me.
Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Trials
To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid
severe testings.
Author: George Mueller
Topics: Faith, Trials, Endurance
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting
no trialsbefore victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands
as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
Author: George Mueller
Topics: Faith, Trials
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The
pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of
his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that
no trialscome. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the
soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Trials, Peace
Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty
friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the
domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our
conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.
Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 28.
Topics: Trials
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Perseverance, Patience, Trials
We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Trials
In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause
us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can
grow only under the pain of trial.
Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 112.
Topics: Trials, Perseverance
Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us
away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine
in which direction we will move.
Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 179.
Topics: Trials
Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's
sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for
good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger
or bitterness.
Author: John C. Broger
Topics: Anger, Bitterness, Trials
Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life.
Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your
self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. In contrast, God's will is for you to
be an overwhelming conqueror in all of these tests for His honor and glory.
Author: John C. Broger
Topics: Trials, Feelings
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need
them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires.
Author: John Newton
Topics: Trials
It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts,
else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves and setting up our rest here.
Author: John Newton
Topics: Trials, Comfort
A measure of trials is necessary for the exercise and manifestation of your graces; to give
you a more convincing proof of the truth and sweetness of the promises made to a time of
affliction; to mortify the body of sin; and to wean you more effectually from the world.
Author: John Newton
Source: Letters.
Topics: Trials
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is
under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season,
measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to
work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his
need.
Author: John Newton
Source: Letters.
Topics: Faith, Trials, Chastisement
It belongs to your calling of God as a minister, that you should have a taste of the various
spiritual trials which are incident to the Lord's people, that thereby you may know how to
speak a word in season to them that are weary; and it is likewise needful to keep you perpetually
attentive to that important admonition, "Without Me ye can do nothing."
Author: John Newton
Source: The Works of John Newton
Topics: Trials
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.
Author: John Piper
Source: Feed My Sheep, 2002, p. 259.
Topics: Preaching, Trials
Sometimes trials come simply to test and purify our faith.
Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Trials
Many times Christians face trials and suffering simply because we live in a world full of sin.
Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Trials, Suffering
Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our
Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships
andtrials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously.
Author: Lee Roberson
Topics: Encouragement, Victory
Often, we endure trials seeking God's deliverance from them. Suffering is painful for us to
endure or to see those we love endure. While our instinct is to flee trials, remember that even
in the midst of suffering, God's will is being done.
Author: Paul Chappell
Topics: Trials, Suffering
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger,
wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because
your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries
shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
Author: Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Suffering, Sin, Trials
You have to recognize as troubles and trials and tests come into your life you have to
recognize that there is a God who sits high and looks low and has all power and has all power
in his hand and if you want to communicate with the divine you do it by faith.
Author: T.D. Jakes
Topics: Struggles, Faith, Trials
We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those
things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be
viewed in the light of eternity.
Author: Theodore Epp
Topics: Life, Eternity, Trials
God has a purpose for trials and testings.
Author: Warren Wiersbe
Topics: Trials
Let the trials of life make you a giant, not a midget.
Author: Warren Wiersbe
Topics: Trials
Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to
enlarge you.
Author: Warren Wiersbe
Topics: Patience, Trials
Don't let your trials blow you down; let them lift you up.
Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Trials
The man who has an easy way through life, will be spiritually weak, flabby and impoverished.
He won't be able to do all that God wants him to do. But the one who has gone
through trialsand testing successfully, will be strong and capable of doing all the will of God.
Author: Zac Poonen
Topics: Trials


The present benefit of spiritual discipline is a fulfilled, God-blessed, fruitful, and useful life. If you get
involved in spiritual gymnastics, the blessings of godliness will carry on into eternity. Although many
people spend far more time exercising their bodies than their souls, the excellent servant of Jesus
Christ realizes that spiritual discipline is a priority.
Author: John MacArthur
Source: Qualities of an Excellent Servant.
Topics: Discipline, Godliness
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
Author: John Wesley
Topics: Holiness, Learning
Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is
it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time
alone with Him.
Author: Kay Arthur
Topics: Prayer, Faith
We need a sweeping revival where people confess their sins and get right with God, where folks
turn out in bigger crowds at the church house than they do at the ball game, and where the old-
time religion still gets top priority!
Author: Shelton Smith
Topics: Revival



Pastor Rick Warren
God always allows a major test before a major blessing. The greater he intends to bless, the bigger the
test will be



C. S. Lewis
"To become new men means losing what we now call 'ourselves.' Out of our selves, into Christ, we must
go."
~ Mere Christianity


Don't let your lips and your lives preach two different messages.

"Contentment is not having what you like, but liking what you have"
Ed Lapiz

1. We ought to be Martha and Mary in one; we should do much service, and have much communion at
the same time.
Category:GraceAuthor:Charles H. Spurgeon
2. Too many learned men, like Pontius Pilate, fix their Greek and Latin and Hebrew over Christ's head,
instead of putting it at His feet.
Category:Reasoning/Thinking Author:AugustusToplady
3. He that loves a man for money or for meat loves money or meat more than the man. Wherefore he
that loves God for any other end than God certainly loves that more than God.
Category:LoveAuthor:John Hales
4. He that loves a man for money or for meat loves money or meat more than the man. Wherefore he
that loves God for any other end than God certainly loves that more than God.
Category:LoveAuthor:John Hales
5. O, how salutary it is, how pleasant, how delightful, to sit alone and in silence, to converse with God,
and so to enjoy the only chief good, in whom all good things are found!
Category:GODAuthor:Thomas A` Kempis
6. Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
Category:Faith& Faithfulness Author:George Macdonald
7. Observe, there cannot be a secret Christian....If you truly feel
the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to
confess Christ before men.
Category:ChristAuthor:Robert Murray McCheyne
8. Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Category:LifeAuthor:Thomas Edison
9. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Category:PerseveranceAuthor:Thomas Edison
10. What actually is the chief mark and element of insanity?....It is reason used without root, reason in
the void. The man who begins to think without the proper first principles goes mad...
Category:Reasoning/Thinking Author:G.K. Chesterton
11. God wills for us to be attached to nothing aside from Him, whether it be man or a thing or even
something conferred on us by Himself.
Author: Watchman Nee Topic: Selfishness

FAITH
12.Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
Author: A.W. Tozer

13. If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply
consulting the watch?
Author: A.W. Tozer

14.Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the
commandments of Christ.
Author: A.W. Tozer

15. Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him.
Author: Andrew Murray

16. Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.
Author: Andrew Murray

17. Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Author: Augustine
18.Few are they who by faith touch Him; multitudes are they who throng about Him.
Author: Augustine

9. 1Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.
Author: Augustine

20. If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Author: Augustine

21. Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Author: Augustine

22. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no
disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel,
Flame of God.
- Amy Carmichael Author: Assorted Authors

23. Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.
- Antony Farindon Author: Assorted Authors
24. Believe in Him and not trust in Him? You might as well say, the Jews did love Him when they nailed
Him to the cross.
- Antony Farindon
Author: Assorted Authors

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
Author: D.L. Moody

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Author: Jim Elliot

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: from a letter "To Mrs. L."

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best
will turn out to be.
Author: C.S. Lewis

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
Author: C.S. Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
Author: C.S. Lewis

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him.
Author: C.S. Lewis

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble
on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then,
without hesitation, that He exists.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not
against them.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Author: Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who
don't.
Author: Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart,
not by the reason.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Author: Joel Osteen

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of
faith.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall
be done.
Author: Charles Wesley

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the
power of Prayer.
Author: Charles Wesley

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
Author: Charles Kingsley

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that
bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have
come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with
them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.
Author: Charles Spurgeon

It was Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All
who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the
inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from
the Holy Scriptures.
- Christopher Columbus
Author: Assorted Authors

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You
sit still and trust the engineer.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot
see.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a
capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing
of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness
of God.
Author: E.M. Bounds

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Author: E.M. Bounds

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty.
Author: Francis de Sales

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means
believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Author: G.K. Chesterton
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the
comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Martin Luther