Encouragement for the Road

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
- Aragorn in The Return of the King

"Great hearts can only be made by great troubles." - Charles Spurgeon, Words of Cheer

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"A way is none the less right because it is rough.  Indeed, often it is all the more sure to be the right way because it is so displeasing to flesh and blood." - Charles Spurgeon, Sermon #2969

"Conversion is turning into the right road; the next thing is to walk in it." - Charles Spurgeon, Sermon #749