Quotemeal for Monday, September 20, 1948

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

— Francis Bacon

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"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."

"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."

— Martin Luther —

"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining...."

— Gordon McDonald —

"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 —