Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes

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.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'