Quotemeal for Saturday, May 30, 2015

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."

— Teresa of Avila

More Quotemeal

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— Epictetus —

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"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."

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