Trials...Look Up and Hold Fast!

"It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies—whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart." ~Hudson Taylor

"It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts, else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves and setting up our rest here." - John Newton

 "No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you." ~Franklin Graham

 

"That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, 'Thou art my refuge.'" ~George MacDonald
"Good people must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them." ~Charles Spurgeon 
"I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right." ~Billy Graham

"Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him."" ~James 1:12