My Year in J.R. Miller Quotes: July Edition

From “The Blessing of Cheerfulness”
       • “One who speaks wholesome words which enter other lives, and influence, guide, strengthen, inspire, or enrich them, blesses the race”
       • “Every one carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.”
       • “It is the privilege of every friend of Christ to be of good cheer, no matter what the circumstances of his life may be. Privilege makes duty.”
       • “All the fine things in Christian nurture and Christian culture have to be learned.”
       • “If we would learn the lesson, we must abide with Christ.”
       • “If we are truly experiencing the friendship of Christ, we shall find the inner joy increasing just as the outer lights grow dim.”
       • “There are blessings, rich, deep, and satisfying, which we never can know until we mourn.”
       • “The deeper the earthly darkness, the richer are the Divine comforts which are given to us, enabling us to be of good cheer whatever the tribulation.”
       • “But if we look at others through Christ-eyes, then even the things in them which cause us pain and sorrow become new chances of joy and blessing for us.”
       • “Every human sorrow or infirmity that makes its appeal to us is a new chance for us to do a beautiful thing, to grow in Christ-likeness.”
       • “Every new burden of care rolled upon us, demanding self-denial, sacrifice, or service, carries in it a new blessing for us, if only we will accept it.”
       • “He who carries about with him a cheerful spirit is a blessing wherever he goes.”
       • “We have no right to go among men with our complaints and our murmurings.”
       • “We have no enemy more to be dreaded than discouragement.”