Quotemeal for 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

More Quotemeal

"Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of|God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace....."

— Jerry Bridges —

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves...."

— Richard S. Emrich —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —