"Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or……" — Giovanni Giocondo
"Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts."
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Giovanni Giocondo
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11 Quotes by Giovanni Giocondo
Giovanni Giocondo has 11 quotes on this site.
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while…
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Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or…
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No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
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Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you…
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Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or…
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I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for…
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No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which…
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Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
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Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance…
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