Quotemeal: Sep. 15th, 2005

Thursday, September 15, 2005

"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."
— Mark Aulson

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"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth."
— Malcolm Muggeridge —
"The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven."
— Edward B. Pusey —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Mark Aulson — "Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."

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