“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”

“While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.”

“For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,”

“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.”

“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”

“A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring”