Quotemeal: Oct. 9th, 1956

Tuesday, October 9, 1956

"God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."
— George Müller

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— Martin Luther —
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— John Ruskin —
"Faith doesn't make anything happen - faith rests on something that has happened!"
— Malcolm Smith —
"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."
— Tryon Edwards —

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Illustration of George Müller — "God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."

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