If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

God judges what we give by what we keep.