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[bigscott_agogo]

"God could have kept Daniel out of the lion's den...He could have kept Paul and Silas out of jail...He could have kept the three Hebrew children out of the fiery furnace...But God has never promised to keep us out of har places...What he has promised is to go with us through every hard place, and to bring us through victoriously."

Comments

[zackass]

i enjoy that one.

[rogerconverse]

yeah its terrific

How about this one?

[wester126]

"The state of a mind oppressed with a sudden calamity, said Imlac, is like that of the fabulous inhabitants of the new created earth, who, when the first night came upon them, supposed that day never would return. When the clouds of sorrow gather over us, we see nothing beyond them, nor can imagine how they will be dispelled: yet a new day succeeded to the night, and sorrow is never long without a dawn of ease. But they who restrain themselves from receiving comfort, do as the savages would have done, had they put out their eyes when it was dark. Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired. To lose much at once is inconvenient to either, but while the vital powers remain uninjured, nature will find the means of reparation. Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want