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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"The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God."
— Blaise Pascal —
"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."
— Henry Emerson Fosdick —
"The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress."
— Billy Graham —
"If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead."
— Winifred Kirkland —

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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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