Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 1959

Sunday, August 16, 1959

"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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"He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Jesus the very thought of Thee|With sweetness fills my breast;|But sweeter far Thy face to see|And in Thy presence rest."
— Bernard of Clairvaux —
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men."
— Martin Luther —

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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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