Quotemeal: Jul. 31st, 2006

Monday, July 31, 2006

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."
— J. I. Packer

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"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."
— Rossetti —
"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"God denies a Christian nothing, but with a design to give him something better."
— Richard Cecil —
"It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."
— Jeremy Taylor —

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Illustration of J. I. Packer — "Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."

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