There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
Adoniram JudsonRead
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
Interpretation
Our wishes or prayers may not align with immediate outcomes, but eventually, they will converge with divine answers.
This quote emphasizes the notion that while humans may seek answers or outcomes through prayer, the timing and manner in which those prayers are answered may differ from our expectations. Often, our understanding is limited, and it is only through patience and faith that we see how our prayers align with greater plans or divine interventions.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the nature of prayer and divine intervention.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
I never realized what a great privilege it is to be able to use the voice for Christ until I was deprived of it.
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -
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