Quotemeal for Monday, January 9, 2023

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

— John Quincy Adams

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"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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— John Dryden —

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— Adrei Bitov —

"Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with..."

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