“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.
– Charles Spurgeon
“Ye that have faith to look with tearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife,
and know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampler life;
Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God has given you a priceless dower
To live in these great times and have your part
In freedom’s crowning hour,
That ye may tell your sons who see the Light
High in the heavens — their heritage to take —
“I saw the powers of darkness put to flight ..
I saw the morning break.”
– Sir Owen Seaman (Published before 1914)
Pride
“One of pride’s most destructive fruits is self-deception, blindness to one’s own spiritual condition. It strongly tends to produce a sense of infallibility.”
– John W. Ritenbaugh
“Christ is the mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), a non-profit based out of Nigeria, has released a new report detailing the mass violence against Christians in Nigeria over the past 12 years. The report states that 43,000 Christians have been killed by Nigerian Islamic radicals in the last 12 years, 18,500 […]
NIGERIA: 43K Christians Killed, 18.5K Abducted, 17.5K Churches Attacked in 12 Years — Deep calls to deep
Wisdom of the Ages 