Quotemeal: Oct. 14th, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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"Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, though reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action."
— John Mackay —
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
— Plutarch —
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
— Helen Keller —
"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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Illustration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer — "The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."

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