Today's Puritan Audio Devotional:

There never was a fountain like this!
Alexander Smellie, precious
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Choice quotes on AFFLICTION

"Affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground!" Job 5:6

"Affliction does not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord who sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it!" (Thomas Boston)

"Those who dive into the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls!" (Charles Spurgeon)

"The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for Heaven!" (Charles Spurgeon)

"Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them." (Charles Spurgeon)

"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction." (Charles Spurgeon)

"There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all." (Charles Spurgeon)

"Afflictions tend to wean us from the world--and to fix our affections on things above." (John Angell James)

"Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride!" (Richard Sibbes)   

"The winter prepares the earth for the spring; so do sanctified afflictions prepare the soul for glory." (Richard Sibbes)
   
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines." (Samuel Rutherford)

"Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it. It is one heart-quieting consideration in all the afflictions that befall us, that God has a special hand in them: 'The Almighty has afflicted me!' Instruments can no more stir until God gives them a commission, than the axe can cut of itself without a hand. Job eyed God in his affliction; therefore, as Augustine observes, Job does not say, "The Lord gave, and the devil took away," but "The Lord has taken away." (Thomas Watson)

"Afflictions add to the saints glory. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the saints cross is, the heavier will be their crown." (Thomas Watson)

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We have published J.R. Miller's very practical short article, "Life as a Ladder".

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