Quotemeal: Jun. 25th, 2019

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

"The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second."
— Florence Allshorn

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"Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders."
— F. W.Faber —
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."
— Simone Weil —

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Illustration of Florence Allshorn — "The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second."

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