And yet how liable is grace to decay, and the inner life to lose ground, when all things smile upon a path smooth and unruffled! But God sends affliction, and the grace that lay concealed is brought to view, and the grace that remained dormant is summoned to arms; the whole soul is awakened, energized and inspired as with new life. “The trial of faith worketh patience.” Thus one tried grace stirs up another grace, until all the links in the golden chain feel the electric influence and are set in motion. O blessed trouble, that so stirs up the life of God in the soul as to make each grace of the Spirit a weapon re-cast, and newly furbished in the furnace, and so coming forth with keener edge, to “fight the good fight of faith,” with mightier power and success.
Octavius Winslow — The Inner Life: Its Nature, Relapse, and Recovery (London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1850), p. 223
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