Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 1947

Wednesday, April 9, 1947

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"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."
— John of the Cross

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"Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
— William Cowper —
"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —
"If you get busy serving God, you're too busy to sin."
— Chuck Baker —

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

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