Quotemeal: Dec. 10th, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

"Some complain because the rose has thorns; Some give thanks because the thorns have roses."
— Barbara Johnson

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— P.T. Forsyth —
"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen —
"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Barbara Johnson — "Some complain because the rose has thorns; Some give thanks because the thorns have roses."

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