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How far less [are] the greatest afflictions that we meet with in this world...than we have deserved! 
Jonathan Edwards
The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), (Page 321)1.5K
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Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering. Else they have a defective heart or a flameless hell.(Lasaunne conference)
The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of scattered grace. Suffering and the Sovereignty of God(106)
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.Resolutions
Resolved, when I am most conscious of provocations to ill nature and anger, that I will strive most to feel and act good-naturedly; yea, at such times, to manifest good nature, though I think that in other respects it would be disadvantageous, and so as would be imprudent at other times.https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-resolutions-of-jonathan-edwards
The resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass.
Those who know true joy in the midst of suffering are those who recognize that, in this life, our suffering is never as great or as serious as our sins. Humility: True Greatness (Chapter 11)
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Look rather at God's end in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-resolutions-of-jonathan-edwards
Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.Resolutions
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them.
Do you wonder about the trials in your life? Well let me just let you know the purpose of them is to cut away everything in your life, so that Jesus does become your life, and it's worth it.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.
Sickness, and losses, and crosses, and anxieties, and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful, and spiritual minded. Holiness (Chapter 6)
Either I must lay hold of Christ or the devil will lay hold of me and drag me to the pit of misery.
God is a perfectly happy Being, in the most absolute and highest sense possible; in strict propriety of speech, there is no such thing as any pain, grief or trouble in God.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
It is God's way to let ministers try all their strength first, and then He Himself comes and subdues the hearts they cannot.
If true religion lies much in the affections, we may infer, that such a way of preaching the word . . . as has a tendency deeply to affect the hearts of those who attend . . . is much to be desired.Religious Affections
God hath appointed . . . preaching . . . as a fit means . . . to stir up the pure minds of the saints, quicken their affections by often bringing the great things of religion to their remembrance, setting them in their proper colours, though they know them, and have been fully instructed in them.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages
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