Quotemeal: Sep. 1st, 2023

Friday, September 1, 2023

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"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining more and more attention, more and more power, more and more material assets. The seductions of the public life would have led to a competitive posture, but the original call to commitment from within spoke louder."
— Gordon McDonald

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"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."
— Rudyard Kipling —
"Don't trust to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting."
— Hammer William Webb-Peploe —
"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
— Billy Wilder —

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Illustration of Gordon McDonald — "[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining more and more attention, more and more power, more and more material assets. The seductions of the public life would have led to a competitive posture, but the original call to commitment from within spoke louder."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.

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