Quotemeal: Jan. 27th, 2018

Saturday, January 27, 2018

"The Christian life isn't difficult — it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own."
— Joseph Garlingen

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"We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine."
— Michel Quoist —
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."
— Jean Nicolas Grou —
"The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle."
— William Temple —

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Illustration of Joseph Garlingen — "The Christian life isn't difficult — it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own."

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