Suffering & Trials
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Theodore Cuyler on Adversity
"God’s people are never so exalted as when they are brought low, never so enriched as when they are emptied, never so advanced as when they are set back by adversity, never so near the crown as when under the cross." (Theodore Cuyler)
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