You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
The Human heart is an idol factory.
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction