{"id":549,"date":"2008-06-30T22:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T02:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/30\/the-best-promise\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T22:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T02:14:26","slug":"the-best-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"The Best Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that happens to you is for your own good.\u00c2\u00a0 If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship toward the port.\u00c2\u00a0 If lightning and thunder comes, it clears the atmosphere and promotes your soul&#8217;s health.\u00c2\u00a0 You gain by loss, you grow healthy in sickness, you live by dying, and you are made rich in losses.<\/p>\n<p>Could you ask for a better promise?\u00c2\u00a0 It is better that all things should work for my good than all things should be as I would wish to have them.\u00c2\u00a0 All things might work for my pleasure and yet might all work my ruin.\u00c2\u00a0 If all things do not always please me, they will always benefit me.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best promise of this life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Charles Haddon Spurgeon, quoted in <em>The Promise, <\/em>by Robert J. Morgan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that happens to you is for your own good.\u00c2\u00a0 If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship toward the port.\u00c2\u00a0 If lightning and thunder comes, it clears the atmosphere and promotes your soul&#8217;s health.\u00c2\u00a0 You gain by loss, you grow healthy in sickness, you live by dying, and you are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}