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10 quotes · The Marquis of Lossie, Unspoken Sermons, Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, Phantastes
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have ‘learned in suffering what they were taught in song.’
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
"To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken, is the truest faith."
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because he would give the best, and man will not take it.
One day, we shall laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from thee; for thy giving will not be limited by our hoping.