Disappointment, His Appointment

Difficulty is the very atmosphere of a miracle--

it is a miracle in its first stage.  If it is to be a 

great miracle, the condition is not difficulty 

but impossibility  The clinging hand of His 

child makes a desperate situation 

a delight to Him.


Difficulties are God's errands;

 and when we are sent upon


them, we should esteem it a 

proof of God's confidence.

~Henry Ward Beecher


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 that we

 shall lose if we flinch or rebel.

~Maltbie Davenport Babcock