We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
We are the playthings of the gods.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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