TROUBLE SAFER THAN PROSPERITY

JONAH was asleep in the ship, but at prayer in the whale’s belly.

—THOMAS WATSON.

Better be preserved in brine than rot in honey.

—JOHN TRAPP.

Israel was safer in the brick-kilns of Egypt than in the plains of Moab.

—WILLIAM JENKYN.

Manasseh’s chain was more profitable to him than his crown.

—THOMAS BROOKS.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

—JOHN BUNYAN.

While the wicked are kept in sugar, the godly are often kept in brine.

—THOMAS WATSON.

Better be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

—JOHN TRAPP.