Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 1940

Wednesday, January 3, 1940

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

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"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life."
— Eugene Peterson —
"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."
— John Chrysostom —
"A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it."
— Larry Burkett —
"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."
— François de Sales —

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Other Devotionals from Heartlight for Wednesday, January 3, 1940

A Year with Jesus
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'Move Toward Perfect Beauty & Holiness'
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Praying with Paul
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'Escaping Evil, Embracing Truth' (2 Ti. 2:22-26)
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What Jesus Did!
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'Planted for the Harvest' (Jn. 12:24-26)
"[After saying his time had come, Jesus continued,] "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone....."
Today's Verse
A daily devotional featuring a Bible verse, thought and prayer.
Isaiah 26:3
"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."

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