Quotemeal: Dec. 4th, 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011

"The ministry of the Spirit of God strengthens us, too, for the task that He knows lies ahead of us. We cannot survive or complete this task using our own abilities. Like Peter and the apostles, we need God's empowerment. We may not know what lies ahead, but we do know that God is preparing us for the future He has prepared for us."
— David Edwards

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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard —
"God has given us two hands: one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving.||"
— Billy Graham —
"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 —
"In the total expanse of human life there is not a square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, "That is mine!""
— Abraham Kuyper —

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Illustration of David Edwards — "The ministry of the Spirit of God strengthens us, too, for the task that He knows lies ahead of us. We cannot survive or complete this task using our own abilities. Like Peter and the apostles, we need God's empowerment. We may not know what lies ahead, but we do know that God is preparing us for the future He has prepared for us."

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