Quotemeal: Dec. 12th, 2014

Friday, December 12, 2014

"I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath."
— David Brainerd

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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard —
"The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better..."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —
"All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

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Illustration of David Brainerd — "I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath."

Other Devotionals from Heartlight for Friday, December 12, 2014

Daily Wisdom
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'Imitating Christ' (Ro. 15:1-8)
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Morning & Evening
The classic twice-daily devotional from Charles H. Spurgeon.
Morning Thought: Isaiah 48:10
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'Bow Before Him' (Ps. 22:29-31)
"Let the rich of the earth feast and worship. Bow before him, all who are mortal, all whose lives will end as dust. Our children will also serve him......"

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