Quotemeal: May. 31st, 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

"We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."
— John Calvin

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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
— Benjamin Franklin —
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
— George Eliot —
"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."
— John Donne —

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Illustration of John Calvin — "We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."

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