Quotemeal: May. 25th, 2001

Friday, May 25, 2001

"I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."
— Jim Elliot

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"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men."
— Martin Luther —
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."
— Epictetus —

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Illustration of Jim Elliot — "I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."

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