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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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty."
— German proverb —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"Why is there so much running to and fro to meetings, conventions, fellowship gatherings and yet so little time for prayer?"
— Andrew Bonar —

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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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