Curtis Jackson Quotes

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

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

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Sometimes it's hell getting to heaven

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

I've gone through hell and back.