Quotemeal: Sep. 17th, 2020

Thursday, September 17, 2020

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."
— James Russell Lowell

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"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"[King] David certainly was aware that his lust for power had become a barrier to inwardness. Careers, even religious careers, may become little more than forums..."
— Calvin Miller —
"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."
— J. I. Packer —
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
— Corrie ten Boom —

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Illustration of James Russell Lowell — "The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

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