Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 2007

Thursday, August 16, 2007

"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

More Quotemeal

"Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off."
— Philip Henry —
"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good."
— John Milton —
"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."
— Charles Hedge —
"God is a busy worker, but he loves help."
— Basque Proverb —

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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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