Quotemeal: Apr. 27th, 1954

Tuesday, April 27, 1954

"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo

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"Character is what you are in the dark."
— Dwight L. Moody —
"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life."
— Robert Louis Stevenson —
"From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving."
— Jeremy Taylor —
"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you."
— Miguel de Unamuno —

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Illustration of St. Augustine of Hippo — "It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

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