Quotemeal: Sep. 17th, 1960

Saturday, September 17, 1960

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."
— James Russell Lowell

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"The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life."
— C. S. Lewis —
"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
— Simone Weil —
"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."
— Abraham Joshua Heschel —

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Illustration of James Russell Lowell — "The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

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