Quotemeal: Oct. 12th, 1959

Monday, October 12, 1959

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —
"Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God's faithfulness."
— Author Unknown —

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Illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson — "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

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