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“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less faade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force the...”
“May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.”
“With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.”
“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.”
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”
“If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.”
“It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.”
“The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.”
“Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.”
“Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall - Some days must be dark and dreary.”
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradic...”
“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
“When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.”
“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Tur...”
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.”