Quotemeal: May. 16th, 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

"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

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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 —
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— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."
— Charles Hedge —
"I have learned that what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
— Author Unknown —

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Illustration of John Milton — "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."

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