Quotemeal: Nov. 17th, 2023

Friday, November 17, 2023

"Our new cultural postmodern credo for avoiding sin is, "Hurt no one and do what you please." ... I much prefer Augustine's credo for avoiding sin: "Love God and do what you please.""
— Calvin Miller

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"All earthly delights are but "streams." But God is the ocean."
— Jonathan Edwards —
"In Thy will is our peace."
— Dante —
"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
— Miguel de Cervantes —

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Illustration of Calvin Miller — "Our new cultural postmodern credo for avoiding sin is, "Hurt no one and do what you please." ... I much prefer Augustine's credo for avoiding sin: "Love God and do what you please.""

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