Quotemeal: May. 31st, 2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

"Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else."
— Rowland Croucher

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Illustration of Rowland Croucher — "Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else."

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