Quotemeal: Jul. 15th, 2004

Thursday, July 15, 2004

"It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them."
— Walter Hilton

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"Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
— Thomas Hardy —
"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
— Frederick Ward Kates —
"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen —

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Illustration of Walter Hilton — "It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them."

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