Daniel J. Sparks

Tag: sickness

  • Cleave to Christ

    Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, follow Him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. At even time it will bring us light. In sickness it will bring us peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

    –J.C. Ryle in Sickness, Chapel Library, Pensacola, Florida (1998), 26.

  • Honoring God in sickness

    I earnestly entreat all sick believers to remember that they may honour God as much by patient suffering as they can by active work. It often shows more grace to sit still than it does to go to and fro, and perform great exploits. I entreat them to remember that Christ cares for them as much when they are sick as He does when they are well, and that the very chastisement they feel so acutely is sent in love, and not in anger.

    –J.C. Ryle in Sickness, Chapel Library, Pensacola, Florida (1998), 23-24.