Thomas à Kempis on Suffering & Trials
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
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The Imitation of Christ 4
To glory in adversity is not hard for the man who loves, for this is to glory in the cross of the Lord.
No one understands the passion of Christ so thoroughly or heartily as the man whose lot it is to suffer the like himself.
No man is fit to enjoy heaven unless he has resigned himself to suffer hardship for Christ.
Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more helpful for you on this earth than to suffer willingly for Christ.