Quotemeal for Friday, August 16, 2019

"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

"To follow the Savior is to participate in salvation, to follow the light is to perceive the light."

— Irenaeus —

"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I..."

— John Newton —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —