How should your patience be crowned in heaven if no adversity should befall to you in earth? If you will suffer no adversity how could you be a friend of Christ?
Reward
James H Aughey
Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it.
Jonathan McNeese
Killing Goliath changed David’s life exponentially, but it wasn’t Goliath that came knocking on his door it was his father, telling him to take lunch to his brothers. Sometimes, opportunity looks like your dad telling you to do something boring.
Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Gregory of Nyssa
It is above all a good conscience which makes the bread tasty because it is eaten in justice.
David Stevens
Obedience, pure and simple, opens up a pathway for the work of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father’s palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
Thomas Watson
The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the saints’ cross is, the heavier will be their crown.
A. W. Tozer
Seldom does God use a person greatly who has not been hurt deeply.
Bill Johnson
We know there is a great reward for following Jesus. Yet if we follow him only for the sake of reward, our foundation will be perilously fragile. That really is the point of Jesus’s teaching: “Seek first the kingdom, and all these things will be added.” Without his priorities, we’ll miss his intentions—we’ll miss the point.