Quotemeal: Apr. 16th, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."
— Frederick Buechner

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"Above all the grace and gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
— Francis of Assisi —
"He is not great who is not greatly good."
— William Shakespeare —
"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
— Alfred North Whitehead —
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Frederick Buechner — "The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

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'What Sorrow Awaits! (3)' (Mt. 23:16-22)
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