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Adversity

Lewis, CS
[I am concerned with the question] If God is omniscient he must have known what
Abraham would do, without any experiment; why, then, this needless torture? But as
St. Augustine points out, whatever God knew, Abraham at any rate did not know that
this obedience would endure such a command until the event taught him; and the
obedience which he did not know that he would choose, he cannot be said to have
chosenTo say that God need not have tried the experiment is to say that because
God knows, the thing known by God need not exist.
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John Calvin
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare
themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various
kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own
children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with
all his children. Bulletin 7/09
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Matthew Henry
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but
sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual
promotions.
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Otto Dibelius
God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through
hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.
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Thomas a Kempis
If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than
to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.
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John Updike
God saves his deepest silence for his saints.
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Francis Schaeffer
Only the one who has been hurt can bring healing. The other person cannot. It is the
one who has been hurt who has to be willing to be hurt again to show love, if there is to
be hope that healing will come.
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A. J. Gossip
Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet
over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken
health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is
dead?
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Richard Hooker
Affliction is both a medicine if we sin, and a preservative that we sin not.
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Georges Bernanos
Even from the cross, when our Lord in his agony found perfection of his saintly
humanityeven then he did not own himself a victim of injustice: They know not what
they do. The Diary of a Country Priest
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John Piper
The quickest way to the heart is through a wound.
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For God to do an impossible work he must take an impossible man and crush him.
Chuck Swindoll
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The nutritional value of squash and pumpkin seeds improves with age. These seeds are
among the few foods that increase in nutritional value as they decompose.
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God always preserves something out of catastrophe on which to build.
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T. R. Milford
Christians must learn again what Christians have always known--how to live without
immediate hopes in the world.
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A. W. Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply, and the
degree that God uses him is directly proportionate to the depth of his hurt.
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Walter Maier
I read of a shipwrecked man who managed to reach an unihabited island. There, to
protect himself against the elements and to safeguard the few possessions he had
salvaged. He painstakingly built a little hut from which he constantly and prayerfully

scanned the horizon for the approach of a ship. Returning one evening after a search
for food, he was terified to find the hut completely enveloped in flames. What a
crushing disaster that seemed! Yet by divine mercy this hard affliction was changed into
a might advantage. Early the following morning he awoke to find a ship anchored off
the island. When the captain stepped ashore, he explained, "We saw your smoke
signal and came." Everything the marooned man owned had to be destroyed before he
could be rescued.
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John Hercus
The great blows of God are designed to stand a man up, to awaken him from the dream
world of his tiny humanity and make him take his place as an image of God, as a
creature made in the likeness of God. Fresh Start 5/05
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He whom God loveth, He beateh the hell out of. Jamie Buckingham
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Justice Brandeis
Former Justice Brandeis, to his frustrated impatient daughter, "My dear, if you would
only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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G. Campbell Morgan
What we do in a crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of
God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
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Samuel Rutherford
Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that
which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith
freeze without a cross?
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Art Linkletter
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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William Ward
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
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Helen Keller
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

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Roger Andersen
Accept that some days youre the pigeon, and some days youre the statue.
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John Dunlap
Tests are to bring out the good in us-God's life in us.
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A difficult crisis can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our
existence holds a purpose-a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
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You do not get to choose whether or not you will suffer. You get to choose if you suffer
with Christ or without him.
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Issac Asimov
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Henry Longfellow
Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes
we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
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Peter Kreeft
Jesus as the tears of God.
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is vast howling wilderness.
Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the
storm.
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Peter Kreeft
All our sufferings are transformable into his work, our passion into his action. We are
really Christ's body. Suffering gives to us the dignity of causality.
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CS Lewis
Love may cause pain to its object but only if that object needs alteration to become fully
lovable.

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Allen Neuharth
Dont just learn something from every experience; learn something positive.
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CH Spurgeon
Our lusts are cords that bind us. Fiery trials are sent to burn and consume them. Who
fears the flame which will bring him liberty from intolerable bonds?
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Hudson Taylor
It doesn't matter, really, how great the pressure is; it only matters where the pressure
lies. See that it never comes between you and the Lord - then, the greater the
pressure, the more it presses you to His breast.
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William Gurnall
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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Inside every large problem is a series of small problems trying to get out.
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Charles Colson
One of my favorite quotes from Solzhenitsyn is when he talks about his own spiritual
conversion. He says, "Bless you, prison, bless you." He came to realize that the object
of life is not prosperity but the maturing of the soul.
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Alexander Maclaren
The worst of all afflictions is wasted affliction, and they are all wasted unless they teach
us more of the reality and the blessedness of the love of Jesus Christ.
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Oliver W. Holmes
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a
capacity to handle it. I don't say, embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an
enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and fhad better be on
speaking terms with it.
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The way out of life's frustrations is found, not by resenting our limitations, but by
accepting the place of frustration as the sphere of God's purpose.
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Jean Grove

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit
of resistance to it.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or
not.
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When you go through the furnace, God has his eye on the clock and his hand on the
thermostat.
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Henry Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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Franklin Jones
Untold suffering seldom is.
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Adjustment is when your ulcer forms a callous.
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The soul could have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
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God often digs wells of joy with the spade of sorrow.
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Life doesnt do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
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The school of affliction leads to spiritual promotion.
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Thomas DeQuincy
Deep is the plowing of grief! But often-times less would not suffice for the agriculture of
God.
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We go from strength because we go from struggle to struggle.
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All sunshine makes the desert.

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God always preserves something out of catastrophe on which to build.
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Eugene Peterson
The exile was the "crucible of Israel's faith." They were pushed to the edge of existence
where they thought they were hanging on by the skin of their teeth, and they found that
in fact they had been pushed to the center, where God was.
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Alan Paton
I have never thought that Christians would be free of suffering. For our Lord suffered.
And I have come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach
us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Peter Marshall
It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In his efforts
to get permanent possession of a soul, God relies on the troughs more than the peaks.
And some of his special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than
anyone else.
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David Lloyd-George
With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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Warren Wiersbe
When we find ourselves in some kind of difficult situation, most of us pray, "Father,get
me out of this!" If nothing happens immediately, then we pray, "Father, when will I get
out of this?" But what we ought to be praying is, "Father, what should I get out of this?"
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Epictetus
Adversity introduces a person to himself.
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A. W. Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply, and the
degree that God uses him is directly proportionate to the depth of his hurt.
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Chuck Swindoll
Illustrates the value of suffering in the story of the monument a small Southern town
erected to the Boll Weevil. It was the bool weevil that knocked out their cotton crop
economy and forced them to other crops, particularly peanuts. They prospered in ways

unimagined. Lesson: build a monument to your failures. God is leading you in a way
that will lead you to greater richnmess.
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Andrew Murray
Welcome suffering as God's message to teach obedience.
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Chuck Swindoll
If you ask directions to your destination and you are told that the road you have to take
is full of potholes, then every bump along the way is your assurance you're on the right
road. Jesus said that your would enter heaven through many tribulations.
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Andrew Murray
We live in a world full of suffering. A great part of the daily life of many is made up of
little trials and vexations. A sharp word; an unkind judgement; neglect or ingratitude
from someone from whom we did not expect it; the carelessness of a servant; the
temper of a husband or wife; the loss accruing through the neglect or onfaithfulness of
others; the disappointment of our wishes; the accidents that vex us - all these things
indaily life often come to us with far greater temptation and danger than the times of
persecution for the faioth brought to martyrs. By their littleness and their frequency and
their suddeness, they surprise and conquer us ere we know. If Christianity is to be a
success, if Christ is to save completly, there must be a provision, sufficient and
efficacious, to prevent suffering from causing discouragement or defeat, to transform it
into blessing and help.
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Alexander Maclaren
It is not outward calamities, but a rebellious will that troubles us.
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Matthew Henry
We cannot judge of men by their present sufferings, nor of sins by their present
punishments; with some the flesh is destroyed that the spirit may be saved, while with
others the flesh is pampered that the soul may ripen for hell.
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Seneca
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things which
belong to adversity are to be admired.
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C. H. Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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Vance Havner
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give
rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken
alabaster box that gives forth perfume...It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to
greater power than ever.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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Oswald Chambers
Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one
ends in the cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitent thief is crucified, and the Son
of God is crucified. By these signs we know the widespread heritage of suffering.
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John Hercus
The great blows of God are designed to stand a man up, to awaken him from the dream
world of his tiny humanity and make him take his place as an image of God, as a
creature made in the likeness of God.
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Raymond Brown
No believer can cope with adversity unless Christ fills his horizon, sharpens his priorities
and dominates his experience.
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Justice Brandeis
Former Justice Brandeis, to his frustrated impatient daughter, "My dear, if you would
only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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G. Campbell Morgan
What we do in a crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of
God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
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Walter Maier
I read of a shipwrecked man who managed to reach an uninhabited island. There, to
protect himself against the elements and to safeguard the few possessions he had
salvaged, He painstakingly built a little hut from which he constantly and prayerfully
scanned the horizon for the approach of a ship. Returning one evening after a search
for food, he was terrified to find the hut completely enveloped in flames. What a
crushing disaster that seemed! Yet by divine mercy this hard affliction was changed into
a might advantage. Early the following morning he awoke to find a ship anchored off

the island. When the captain stepped ashore, he explained, "We saw your smoke
signal and came." Everything the marooned man owned had to be destroyed before he
could be rescued.

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