Quotemeal: Feb. 20th, 2004

Friday, February 20, 2004

"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."
— J. H. Jowett

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Illustration of J. H. Jowett — "God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

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