“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) British minister and poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.
“The first to be summoned to Paradise on the Day of Resurrection will be those who praise God in prosperity and adversity.”
— Muhammad
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 730
Sunni Hadith
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Context: God is summoning you. Angels are summoning you. The myriads who have gone before are summoning you. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses." The battlements of the sky seem thronged with those who have fought the good fight of faith. They bend down from the eminence, and bid us ascend, through the one Mediator, to the same lofty dwelling.
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Of the new day!”
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