Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 2005

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."
— Charles H. Spurgeon

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"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars."
— Martin Luther —
"Do you wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to your neighbor."
— John Chrysostom —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God."
— Irenaeus —

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Illustration of Charles H. Spurgeon — "Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

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