Tribulation brings us to God

“We are told that ‘tribulation works patience,’ that is to say, the opposition which trial gives to our desires… forms the meek and lovely temper called patience; and then, as holy scripture proceeds to inform us, patience produces experience; or in other words, a living, abiding knowledge of God, and his way of acting with the soul, and a sweet certainty that he is educating and caring for it, and preparing it for himself; none of which divine truths can be learned but through quietness of mind.”

— Mary Ann Kelty, 1860
Quaker writer

Today’s Invitation

Let a living, abiding knowledge of God be a consolation for tribulation.

This Week’s Query

What is a spiritual lesson that has shaped your life? How did you learn it?

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Author

Mary Ann Kelty

Mary Ann Kelty (1789-1873) was a teacher and author in England. She who discovered the writings of early Friends later in her life. She never formally joined with them in membership (though she is said to have frequently attended the Friends’ meeting house at Peckham). She wrote the book “The Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Quakers.”

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