Quotemeal: Apr. 12th, 2017

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."
— John of the Cross

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"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."
— William Shakespeare —
"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."
— John Owen —
"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you."
— Miguel de Unamuno —

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."

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