| TRIALS - God the Sender | 試煉 - 差派的上帝 |
| God may call you to endure difficulties, but he will
never cause you to experience defeat. 上帝或許會要你承受困難，但祂永不會讓你被擊敗。 |
| The storms of life no more
indicate the absence of God than clouds indicate the absence of the sun. 生命的風暴不表示上帝不在勝過烏雲並不表示太陽不存在。 |
| God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage. 上帝應許一個安全的著路卻未應許航行安穩平靜。 |
| God sometimes puts his
children to bed in the dark. 上帝有時候在黑暗中讓祂的兒女入睡。 |
| The pressures of life are the hands of the Potter. 生命活壓力是陶匠的手。 |
| Wherever souls are being
tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the
pillars of his temple. Phillips Brooks 在靈魂常受一般試煉及成熟之處，上帝正在那裡砍伐好做聖殿棟梁的木材。 |
| God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for
more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of
affliction. Richard Cecil 上帝對基督徒祈求得著更多忍耐、經驗、希望及愛心的回答通常是將他們放入苦難的熔爐。 |
| God measures out affliction
to our need. Chrysostom 上帝依照我們的需要量給我們苦難。 |
| Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's
messenger sent down to thee. Aubrey T. De Vere 將每一個苦難，無論大小，都視為上帝使者賜給你的。 |
| God sometimes brings his
people into a wilderness that there he might speak comfortably to them. Matthew Henry 有時候上帝將祂的百姓帶到曠野，好在那兒舒適的跟他們說話。 |
| There may be love in Christ's heart while there are
frowns in his face. Matthew Henry 當基督的臉上皺起眉頭時，祂的心中則是充滿慈愛。 |
| God will not look you over
for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard 上帝檢視的不是你的獎牌、學位或證書，而是你的傷痕。 |
| Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its
jewels with. Robert Leighton 苦難是上天拋光珠寶的金剛砂。 |
| Let God lay on a burden, he
will be sure to strengthen the back. Thomas Lye 讓上帝給你擔子，祂一定會讓你的背硬朗。 |
| Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings. George MacDonald 苦難是上帝羽翼的陰影。 |
| If God sends us on stony
paths he will provide us with strong shoes. Alexander MacLaren 如果上帝差我們踏上坎坷石路，祂會讓我們穿上耐磨的鞋子。 |
| Affliction by itself does not sanctify; it exhausts
and embitters, it depresses and entices. It is the presence of God and the use made
of it by him, as he relates it to our lives as a whole...that makes adversity salutary. Donald MacLeod 苦難本身沒有聖潔的功效；只有耗盡心力及痛苦難堪，只有沮喪與誘惑。但它代表上帝的同在並是上帝按照心意安排的，祂使苦難與我們的生命息息相關...這使苦難變成益處。 |
| God will never permit any
troubles to come upon us unless he has a specific plan by which great blessing can come
out of the difficulty. Peter Marshall 除非是祂刻意安排為讓我們從困難中大得益處，否則上帝不會許可任何困難臨到我們。 |
| It is true that God tempts none, as temptation
formally leads into sin; but he orders temptations. John Owen 這是真的，上帝並不試探人，試探通常領人犯罪；但祂也命定遭遇試探。 |
| The whole of life is a test,
a trial of what is in us, so arranged by God himself. William Plumer 整個生命就是一個考試、一個試煉，是上帝親自安排的。 |
| There is no cross or misery that befalls the church
of God or any of his children, but it is related to God. Samuel Rutherford 除了跟上帝有關的以外，沒有一個十字架或不幸會臨到上帝的教會或任何上帝的兒女。 |
| Let no man think himself the
better because he is free from troubles. It is because God sees him not fit to bear
greater. Richard Sibbes 不要讓人以為自己不遭災害是因為自己比別人好。這是因為上帝看他不適合擔負更大的擔子。 |
| The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands
of affliction. C. H. Spurgeon 我們的主從苦難的高原培養出最佳的戰士。 |
| The refiner is never very
far from the mouth of the furnace when his gold is in the fire. C. H. Spurgeon 當他的金子在熔爐之中時，煉金者不會遠離爐嘴。 |
| Mountains are God's methods. J. Charles Stern 高山是上帝的方法。 |
| While the storm gathers let
us by faith rejoice in our place behind the shut door - in Christ. J. Charles Stern 在狂風吹襲時，讓我們憑著信心在緊閉的門後享受基督裡的喜樂。 |
| God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne 上帝為剪過毛的羊調節合適溫度。 |
| God's wounds are better than
Satan's slaves. John Trapp 上帝的傷口勝過撒旦的奴役。 |
| Affliction is a badge of adoption. Thomas Watson 苦難是被主接納的記號。 |
| God doesn't save people from
punishment or pain. He saves them by giving them the strength and the spirit to bear
it. Leonard Wilson 上帝並不拯救人們脫離刑罰或痛楚。祂藉著賜與承受的能力及精神來拯救人們。 |
| We may feel God's hand as a Father upon us when he
strikes us as well when he strokes us. Abraham Wright 當我們承受上帝的打擊與撫摸時，我們能感覺那是慈父般的手。 |