Quotemeal: Dec. 31st, 1947

Wednesday, December 31, 1947

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
Emerson
"The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God."
"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."
John Owen
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God."

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Illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson — "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.