Quotemeal: Aug. 1st, 2018

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
— Samuel Johnson

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"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen —
"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."
— J. H. Jowett —
"God denies a Christian nothing, but with a design to give him something better."
— Richard Cecil —
"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
— John Henry Newman —

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Illustration of Samuel Johnson — "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

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