Quotemeal: May. 30th, 1954

Sunday, May 30, 1954

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."
— Phillips Brooks

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"Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink deeper. Only an outside hand can pull you out."
— Author Unknown —
"For Christ is the God over all, who has arranged to wash away sin from mankind, rendering the old man new."
— Hippolytus —
"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."
— John Owen —
"Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be ready to receive greater."
— Thomas à Kempis —

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Illustration of Phillips Brooks — "We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

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