Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.
Here are a few that caught my attention this week:
From a friend’s Facebook:
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
From a friend’s Twitter:
Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way is a stranger to the cross. ~ Tim Keller
From Ann Voskamp quoting this sermon:
“There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it be sickness; and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health…
It is a good thing to be without a trouble; but it is a better thing to have a trouble, and know how to get grace enough to bear it.” ~Spurgeon
That goes along with this, seen in Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man by Bob Schultz:
Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man, is not that he has been exempted from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them. ~ Patrick Henry
This was also seen in Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man by Bob Schultz:
The Bible is the Word of life — it is a picture of the human heart displayed for all ages and all sorts of conditions of men. I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day; I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and of the pleasure. ~ Woodrow Wilson
You can share your family-friendly quotes in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below.
I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder. And don’t forget to leave a comment here, even if you don’t have any quotes to share! 🙂
Stray Thoughts 
Any quote about men and adversity always gets my attention. God made men to enjoy a challenge, and even serious difficulties. As a woman, I wish I had that same inclination!
I linked up Barbara… longer quotes as usual.
The Spurgeon quote hit home with me in light of the past few months. It has been good for me to be afflicted…
Spurgeon’s quote about health being a “greater mercy” is particularly poignant to me because I had increased back pain last week. I kept trying to find the blessing in the suffering; let’s say it wasn’t easy. 😉
But I know God gives grace greater than our problems, and sometimes just remembering that helps conquer part of my battle, even when I don’t see the grace yet.
Interesting quote by Woodrow Wilson. I didn’t know that about him.
You bought back a pleasant memory today with the Corrie ten Boom quote. When she was 81, I heard her speak!
That quote by Spurgeon is wonderful. I wish we heard more sermons like that these days. It would help us through the trials, bolstering our spirits and encouraging us to keep going. I’m not presently IN a trial but it speaks to my spirit and encourages me of truths. Love that! So glad you shared that one.
Corrie Ten Boom’s quote spoke to me.