Thomas Guthrie Quotes

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

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

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.