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.
Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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