Quotemeal for Sunday, August 8, 2004

"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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"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."

— Charles Hedge —

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