"Live like those that have a God, and then be disconsolate if you can: if there be not more in an infinite God to comfort you, than in a prison, or poverty, or affliction to deject you, our preaching is vain, and your faith is vain."
— Joseph Alleine
Source: Christian Letters, Letter V, from the common gaol at Ilchester, 1663
Suffering, Holy Spirit
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"A mass of legend and literature, which increases and will never end, has repeated and rung the changes on that single paradox; that the hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded."
— G. K. Chesterton
Source: The Everlasting Man, Part II, ch. 1 "The God in the Cave"
""The men where you live," said the little prince, "grow five thousand roses in the same garden… and they do not find in it what they are looking for." "They do not find it," I replied. "And yet what they are looking for could be found in a single rose, or in a little water…" "Yes, of course," I replied. And the little prince added: "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.""
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Source: The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince, 1943), ch. XXV
Loss, Possession, Search
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"Whether or not we sense and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or one of the holy angels, by faith we are certain God will never leave us nor forsake us."
— Billy Graham
Source: Angels: God's Secret Agents (1975), end of chapter 8
Accident, coincidence, construction begins
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"Why are these left all the years through unsought? For the simple reason that they have escaped all the turmoil and attrition of the waves, and the quiet and peace have left them as they found them, rough and angular and devoid of beauty. Polish comes through trouble. Since God knows what niche we are to fill, let us trust Him to shape us to it. Since He knows what work we are to do, let us trust Him to drill us to the proper preparation."
— Mrs. Cowman
Source: Streams in the Desert, July 7
Vessel, loneliness, waiting
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"God still loves the world, and He sends you and me to be His love and His compassion to the poor."
— Mother Teresa
Source: A saying of hers quoted in the official biography, Mother Teresa Center of the Missionaries of Charity (motherteresa.org)