bonniefaurote posted: " AFFLICTION – TO CHASTEN THE SOUL "[T]he whole soul, wrapped up in carnal delights, seeks its happiness on this earth. To counteract this, the Lord by various and severe lessons of misery, teaches his children the vanity of the present life" John C" Bonnie's Prayer Affair
"[T]he whole soul, wrapped up in carnal delights, seeks its happiness on this earth. To counteract this, the Lord by various and severe lessons of misery, teaches his children the vanity of the present life" John Calvin (ref#313, p68).
"Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue" Lord Francis Bacon (ref#333, p123).
"We suffer a serious loss when we dwell so much in the region of present clouds, and so little in the meridian of future glory. We look too faintly beyond the midnight of time, into the daylight of eternity. We are slow of heart to believe all that is revealed of the bliss that awaits us, and do not sufficiently realize that in a little while—oh, how soon!—the day will break, the shadow will flee away, and we shall bathe our souls in heaven's full, unclouded, endless light" Octavius Winslow (ref#135, Feb 2nd).
"Afflictions quicken us to prayer. They are useful, and in a degree necessary, to keep alive in us a conviction of the vanity and unsatisfying nature of the present world" John Newton (ref#322, p173).
"Trial is part of the education given in the school of Christ, to purify God's children from the dross of earthliness. It is because God is leading His children that trying experiences come to them. Trials and obstacles are His chosen methods of discipline, and He is appointed conditions of success" Ellen G. White (ref#331, p524).
"All your heaven-blessed trials, all your sanctified temptations, all the covenant transactions of God with you in the way of afflictive providences, are designed only to fit you more perfectly for your inheritance" Octavius Winslow (ref#135, Feb 28th).
"[H]e does not afflict to destroy or ruin us, but rather to deliver us from the condemnation of the world" John Calvin (ref#313, p54).
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