Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 2024

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

More Quotemeal

"Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways."
"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and....."
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets...."
"'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light..."
John Selden

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.