Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 1959

Sunday, August 16, 1959

"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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"God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way."
— Leighton Ford —
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— Book of Common Prayer —
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— Charles Hedge —
"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us..."
— François Fénelon —

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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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