Quotemeal: May. 3rd, 2010

Monday, May 3, 2010

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."
— Henry Ward Beecher

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"Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp."
— Leo the Great —
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe —
"No man is ever more than four steps from God: conviction, repentance, consecration, and faith."
— Roy L. Smith —
"Why is there so much running to and fro to meetings, conventions, fellowship gatherings and yet so little time for prayer?"
— Andrew Bonar —

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Illustration of Henry Ward Beecher — "The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

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