Quotemeal: Sep. 17th, 1956

Monday, September 17, 1956

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."
— James Russell Lowell

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"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
— William R. Inge —
"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
— Victor Hugo —
"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."
— Phillips Brooks —

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Illustration of James Russell Lowell — "The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

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