Quotes That Bless Me

I don’t know about you, but sometimes it’s nice to read the words of sage, godly Christian men and women who have gone through circumstances similar to my own. Right now I’m dealing with several difficult issues in my life, and so the following quotes have been of great encouragement and blessing to me. I regret that I can’t write an actual ‘article’ about everything the Lord’s been teaching me during these trials, but I can at least share these quotes with you. Keep looking to Jesus sisters! No matter what’s going on in you life, keep your eyes and heart fixed on Him! Love ya!♥

-Rachel

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
- C. H. Spurgeon

“If we will look back upon the past, many of us will find that the very time our Heavenly Father has chosen to do the kindest things for us, and given us the richest blessings, has been the time we were strained and shut in on every side. God's jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King's palace and the Bridegroom's love.”
- A. B. Simpson

“Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle.”
- Phillip Brooks

Never be sad or desponding,
If thou but have faith to believe,
Grace, for the duties before thee
Ask of thy God and receive.
Never give up, never give up,
Never give up to thy sorrows,
Jesus will bid them depart,
Trust in the Lord, trust in the Lord,
Sing when your trials are greatest,
Trust in the Lord and take heart! ~ Fanny Crosby

"When you can't see His hand, trust His heart"
~Unknown

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles & quakes." -Beth Moore

“If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.” - Ruth Stull

“Our heavenly Father knows where to place us, where we learn lessons impossible anywhere else. He neither misplaced nor displaced us. He assigns and designs according to His inscrutable wisdom- always for our blessing and conformity to the image of Christ.” -Elisabeth Elliot

“Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, inward or outward - and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just the He can bring your soul into blossom.” -L. Lilias Trotter

“A brook would lose it’s song if it had no rocks.”