Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 2007

Saturday, December 22, 2007

"All effective fathers learn the importance of a wise and flexible response to their children's calls for attention. No busy signals here. No "hold" button."
— Gordon McDonald

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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold."
— William Booth —
"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —
"God does not waste suffering; if he ploughs it is because He purposes a crop."
— J.O.Sanders —

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Illustration of Gordon McDonald — "All effective fathers learn the importance of a wise and flexible response to their children's calls for attention. No busy signals here. No "hold" button."

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