Quotemeal: Mar. 16th, 2018

Friday, March 16, 2018

"Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely."
— Phillips Brooks

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"Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us."
— Oswald Chambers —
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— Meister Eckhart —
"An unguarded strength is a double weakness."
— Gordon McDonald —
"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."
— John Stott —

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Illustration of Phillips Brooks — "Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely."

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