Quotemeal: May. 19th, 1947

Monday, May 19, 1947

"It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud."
— St. Augustine of Hippo

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"We have a God who delights in impossibilities."
— Andrew Murray —
"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."
— John Dryden —
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
— Plutarch —
"God writes straight with crooked lines."
— Spanish Proverb —

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Illustration of St. Augustine of Hippo — "It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud."

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