David Livingstone Quotes

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

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

I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.