These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
Interpretation
Difficulties often precede significant blessings.
This quote suggests that the challenges and burdens we face in life serve as precursors to greater mercies and rewards. By enduring hardships, we may uncover valuable lessons and experiences that lead to positive outcomes, emphasizing the importance of patience and resilience during tough times.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a community event, highlighting the lessons learned from struggles.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
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