Friday, August 22

Often Affliction

“Often the same thing that makes one person bitter makes another better.” J.C. Ryle

“God often digs wells of joy with spades of affliction.” Isaac Watts

“To scale great heights, we must come out of the lowermost depths. The way to heaven all too often leads through hell.” Herman Melville

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis

1 comment:

Linda said...

And thus we are able to thank God in the midst of often afflictions.