Quotemeal for Saturday, May 3, 1958

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

— Henry Ward Beecher

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