Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 1947

Saturday, August 16, 1947

"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."
— Jean Nicolas Grou

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"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."
— J. I. Packer —
"If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?"
— Blaise Pascal —
"The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God."
— Neil Anderson —
"No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."
— H. A. Ironside —

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Illustration of Jean Nicolas Grou — "The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

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