Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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