Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.