Quotemeal: Jun. 11th, 1949

Saturday, June 11, 1949

"We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."
— A. W. Tozer

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"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
— Frederick Buechner —
"Culture of intellect, without religion in the heart, is only civilized barbarism and disguised animalism."
— Christian Karl von Bunsen —
"It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.""
— St. Ambrose —
"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin —

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Illustration of A. W. Tozer — "We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."

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