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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"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite..."
— John Baillie —
"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had..."
— Robert L. Short —
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
— Thomas Fuller —

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

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