“My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.”

—  Christian Scriver

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 161.

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German hymnwriter 1629–1693

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