“To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.”

— John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 565.

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British abolitionist 1785–1859

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