Quotemeal: May. 30th, 2003

Friday, May 30, 2003

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."
— Teresa of Avila

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"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."
— James Russell Lowell —
"Christians are not men and women who are hoping for salvation, but those who have experienced it."
— M. Lloyd-Jones —
"The Word is stronger than all the evils in the soul. The Word is the healing power who dwells in him."
— Origen —
"If the blind put their hand in God's they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."
— Helen Keller —

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Illustration of Teresa of Avila — "God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."

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