Quotemeal: Dec. 13th, 2014

Saturday, December 13, 2014

"If we would learn from our prosperity, we would not need so much adversity."
— Charles H. Spurgeon

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"We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help."
— Henri Nouwen —
"If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?"
— Herrik Johnson —
"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work...."
— Teresa of Avila —
"The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the Devil."
— C. S. Lewis —

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Illustration of Charles H. Spurgeon — "If we would learn from our prosperity, we would not need so much adversity."

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