Quotemeal: Jun. 4th, 2020

Thursday, June 4, 2020

"Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man."
— John Chrysostom

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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
— Cicero —
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"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."
— Charles F. Banning —
"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 John Chrysostom — "Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man."

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