Quotemeal: Oct. 14th, 2004

Thursday, October 14, 2004

"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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"More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born."
— Author Unknown —
"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
— Winston Churchill —
"A Christian must keep the faith, but not to himself."
— Jim Patrick —
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

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Illustration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer — "The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."

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