Christ has no velvet crosses.
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.