Quotemeal: Jul. 31st, 2014

Thursday, July 31, 2014

"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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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"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 —
"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."
— John Owen —
"God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with Him."
— Jurgen Moltmann —

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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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