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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"He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
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— G. K. Chesterton —
"God denies a Christian nothing, but with a design to give him something better."
— Richard Cecil —
"Jesus gave history a new beginning. In every land He is at home...His birthday is kept across the world. His death-day has set a gallows against every city..."
— George Buttrick —

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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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