If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no…

Saint John Chrysostom
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If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. ✨ Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). To the People of Antioch, p.77
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