Great Faith
“Great faith is exhibited not so much in ability to do as to suffer.” ~Dr. Charles Parkhurst
“To have a sympathizing God we must have a suffering Savior, and there is no true fellow-feeling with another save in the heart of him who has been aflicted like him. We cannot do good to others save at a cost to ourselves, and our afflictions are the price we pay for our ability to symphathize. He who would be a helper, must first be a sufferer. He who would be a savior must somewhere and somehow have been upon a cross; and we cannot have the highest happiness of life in succoring others without tasting the cup which Jesus rank, and submitting to the baptism wherewith He was baptized… The present circumstance, which presses so hard against you (if surrendered to Christ), is the best-shaped tool in the Father’s hand to chisel you for eternity. Trust Him, then. Do not push away the instrument lest you lose its work. For the school of suffering graduates rare scholars.”
~Excerpt from Streams in the Desert
