Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 2017

Thursday, August 17, 2017

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."
— Charles H. Spurgeon

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"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."
— W. R. Inge —
"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."
— John of the Cross —
"The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?"
— Richard Baxter —
"God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places... He comes in surprising ways."
— Henry Gariepy —

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Illustration of Charles H. Spurgeon — "Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

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