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William MacDonald

It is true that "calm seas never made a sailor." It is through tribulation that we develop patience. It is through pressure that we are enlarged.

Even men of the world have realized that difficulties have educative and broadening values. Charles Kettering once said, "Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but problems. Good news weakens me."

But especially from the Christian world come testimonies to the profit derived from trials.

We read, for...

Bible Verses: Psalms 4:1Hebrews 12:11

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William MacDonald

The Bible is full of paradoxes, that is, truths that seem contrary to what we would normally suppose or truths that seem to contradict one another. G. K. Chesterton maintained that paradox is truth standing on its head to attract attention. Here are a few of the paradoxes trying to attract our attention.

We save our lives by losing them; we lose our lives by loving them (Mark 8:35).

We are strong when we are weak (

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 6:9Mark 8:352 Corinthians 12:10John 15:5Romans 6:17-20Acts 20:35Proverbs 11:241 John 3:91 John 1:8Genesis 32:24-281 Peter 5:5Psalms 4:1Jeremiah 48:112 Corinthians 6:101 Corinthians 1:20-21Matthew 6:19

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T. Austin-Sparks


God, who… made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV)



We stand by revelation, "God
who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ." "God... called me through grace to reveal His Son
in me." - Gal. 1:16. How...

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 4:6Galatians 1:162 Corinthians 4:11Psalms 4:1

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Samuel Bagster

Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. § I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears … They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in...

Bible Verses: 1 Samuel 30:6John 6:682 Timothy 1:12Psalms 18:6Psalms 18:19Psalms 4:1Psalms 4:2Psalms 4:3Psalms 4:4Psalms 4:8

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Miles Stanford

Tribulation worketh patience" (Rom. 5:3).


The source of our Christian life is a Person, and the growth of that life in us is a gradual process - comparable to a grain of wheat, or a branch in the vine.

"A person whose ancestors for three or four...

Bible Verses: Romans 5:3Psalms 4:1James 1:3

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