The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Frederick William Robertson
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- Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
- In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
- We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
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