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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"Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways."
— W. T. Purkiser —
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— Clare of Assisi —
"Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint, and he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is."
— Blaise Pascal —
"I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the....."
— C. T. Studd —

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

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