Quotemeal: Sep. 16th, 2004

Thursday, September 16, 2004

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the aged? If someone's sitting in a rocker, it won't be long before a kid will be in his lap."
— Cloris Leachman —
"Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see the perfect church."
— J. C. Ryle —
"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience."
— Alfred Edersheim —

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Illustration of Leo Tolstoy — "Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

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