Quotemeal: Apr. 27th, 1946

Saturday, April 27, 1946

"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo

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"Over the long run, love's power to forgive is stronger than hate's power to get even."
— Lewis B. Smedes —
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo —
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C. S. Lewis —
"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."
— Walt Witman —

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Illustration of St. Augustine of Hippo — "It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

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