Suffering & Trials
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J.R. Miller on Burdens
"If we get a discouraged man to take heart again, and to set out bravely to fight his own battles and carry his own burdens we have done him a far greater kindness than if we had fought his battles and carried his burdens for him." (J.R. Miller)
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