Quotemeal: Apr. 16th, 1949

Saturday, April 16, 1949

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."
— Frederick Buechner

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"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."
— H. E. Fosdick —
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
— John Wooden —
"We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us."
— Ed Howe —
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
— William Barclay —

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Illustration of Frederick Buechner — "The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

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