Quotemeal: Sep. 17th, 1947

Wednesday, September 17, 1947

"We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding."
— Calvin Miller

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"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
— Albert Einstein —
"He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself."
— Montaigne —
"From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving."
— Jeremy Taylor —
"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."
— Walt Witman —

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Illustration of Calvin Miller — "We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding."

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