Quotemeal: Aug. 1st, 2006

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
— Samuel Johnson

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"There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less."
— Philip Yancey —
"Believing in the future takes faith. ... We cannot function effectively without a belief in that which does not exist. ... You believe in tomorrow; you believe...."
— Erwin Raphael McManus —
"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."
— Simone Weil —

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Illustration of Samuel Johnson — "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

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