Quotemeal: Apr. 29th, 2007

Sunday, April 29, 2007

"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."
— John of the Cross

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"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life."
— Jonathon Edwards —
"God examines both rich and poor, not according to their lands and houses, but according to the riches of their hearts."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."

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