“你叫你的民遇见艰难。”（诗60：3）
诗篇的着者说：“遇见艰难”，（这话说明了人生确有不少的艰难）。今年夏天，有人送给我们一束粉红色的花，我就问：这是什么花？答是： “石花，它们生长在全无泥土的岩石上。”于是我们想，神的花是生长在艰难处所的，而且我心中感到，神对于这些石上之花，也许照顾得特别周到，那温柔决非玫瑰和百合花可分享。——濮登
人生的试验都是造就我们，不是破坏我们的。患难也许会拆毁我们的事业，可是能建立我们的品性。外面最大的打击，乃是里面最大的祝福。如果神允许艰难临到我们，那临到我们的危险，患难，定规都是于我们有益的；倘使我们退缩，叛逆，我们必会蒙到损失。——贝伯考克
神的精兵都是从苦难中得来的。
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things (Ps. 60:3).
I have always been glad that the Psalmist said to God that some things were hard. There is no mistake about it; there are hard things in life.
Some beautiful pink flowers were given me this summer, and as I took them I said, "What are they?" And the answer came, "They are rock flowers; they grow and bloom only on rocks where you can see no soil." Then I thought of God's flowers growing in hard places; and I feel, somehow, that He may have a peculiar tenderness for His "rock flowers" that He may not have for His lilies and roses.
--Margaret Bottome
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is what we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.
--Maltbie D. Babcock
Heroes are forged on anvils hot with pain,
And splendid courage comes but with the test.
Some natures ripen and some natures bloom
Only on blood-wet soil, some souls prove great
Only in moments dark with death or doom.
God gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
诗篇的着者说：“遇见艰难”，（这话说明了人生确有不少的艰难）。今年夏天，有人送给我们一束粉红色的花，我就问：这是什么花？答是： “石花，它们生长在全无泥土的岩石上。”于是我们想，神的花是生长在艰难处所的，而且我心中感到，神对于这些石上之花，也许照顾得特别周到，那温柔决非玫瑰和百合花可分享。——濮登
人生的试验都是造就我们，不是破坏我们的。患难也许会拆毁我们的事业，可是能建立我们的品性。外面最大的打击，乃是里面最大的祝福。如果神允许艰难临到我们，那临到我们的危险，患难，定规都是于我们有益的；倘使我们退缩，叛逆，我们必会蒙到损失。——贝伯考克
神的精兵都是从苦难中得来的。
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things (Ps. 60:3).
I have always been glad that the Psalmist said to God that some things were hard. There is no mistake about it; there are hard things in life.
Some beautiful pink flowers were given me this summer, and as I took them I said, "What are they?" And the answer came, "They are rock flowers; they grow and bloom only on rocks where you can see no soil." Then I thought of God's flowers growing in hard places; and I feel, somehow, that He may have a peculiar tenderness for His "rock flowers" that He may not have for His lilies and roses.
--Margaret Bottome
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is what we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.
--Maltbie D. Babcock
Heroes are forged on anvils hot with pain,
And splendid courage comes but with the test.
Some natures ripen and some natures bloom
Only on blood-wet soil, some souls prove great
Only in moments dark with death or doom.
God gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.