Quotemeal: Jan. 20th, 2006

Friday, January 20, 2006

"The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass."
— Philip Yancey

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— Mother Teresa —
"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."
— Abraham Joshua Heschel —

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Illustration of Philip Yancey — "The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass."

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