Quotemeal: Apr. 7th, 1949

Thursday, April 7, 1949

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
— William R. Inge

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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""
— John Greenleaf Whittier —
"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."
— Morris Alder —
"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 —
"Don't trust to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting."
— Hammer William Webb-Peploe —

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Illustration of William R. Inge — "No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

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