Quotemeal: Apr. 22nd, 1948

Thursday, April 22, 1948

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
— Francis de Sales

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"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."
— Edwin Keith —
"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."
— Francis Bacon —
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
— Plutarch —
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
— William Barclay —

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Illustration of Francis de Sales — "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

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