Quotemeal: Jul. 31st, 1949

Sunday, July 31, 1949

"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."
— Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

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"We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us."
— Ed Howe —
"Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God."
— William Cowper —
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"A comprehended god is no god."
— St. John Chrysostom —

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Illustration of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador — "We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."

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