Refeshing thoughts...

“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”
By: Samuel Rutherford (17th century Scottish Presbyterian)

“The flowers smell sweetest after a shower; vines bear the better for bleeding; the walnut-tree is most fruitful when most beaten; saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. Manasseh’s chain was more profitable to him than his crown . . . All of the stones that came about Stephen’s ears did but knock him closer to Christ, the corner-stone.”
By: Thomas Brooks (17th century English Puritan)