These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
Interpretation
Difficulties often precede significant blessings.
This quote suggests that the challenges and burdens we face in life serve as precursors to greater mercies and rewards. By enduring hardships, we may uncover valuable lessons and experiences that lead to positive outcomes, emphasizing the importance of patience and resilience during tough times.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a community event, highlighting the lessons learned from struggles.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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