David Machado

“If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.”
― Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, All of grace

“It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.”
― Cornelius Van Til

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”
― Richard Sibbes