1 Thessalonians 1:6 (NLT2) So you received the message with joy from the Holy Spirit in spite of the severe suffering it brought you. In this way, you imitated both us and the Lord.
"If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere." -- Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1992), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 358-359.
