Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 2019

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

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"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially formed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"I resolve to endeavor to my utmost to act and think as if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell."
— Jonathan Edwards —
"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth."
— Malcolm Muggeridge —

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Illustration of Jean Nicolas Grou — "The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

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