Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 1955

Tuesday, August 16, 1955

"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."
— Jean Nicolas Grou

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"Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love!"
— Pete Welsh —
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
— Leo Tolstoy —
"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."
— John Climacus —
"I will not work my soul to save,|For that my Lord alone has done;|But I will work like any slave |Because I'm loved by God's dear Son!"
— William Henry Griffith Thomas —

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Illustration of Jean Nicolas Grou — "The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

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Morning & Evening
The classic twice-daily devotional from Charles H. Spurgeon.
Morning Thought: Romans 1:7
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Praying with Paul
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'Christ, the Stumbling Block' (Ga. 5:7-12)
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