The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
He conquers who endures.
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.