Quotemeal: Aug. 1st, 1954

Sunday, August 1, 1954

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
— Samuel Johnson

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"Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven."
— Burder —
"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Does God indeed need to rest? Of course not! But did God choose to rest? Yes. Why? Because God subjected creation to a rhythm of rest and work that He revealed...."
— Gordon McDonald —
"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."
— J. I. Packer —

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Illustration of Samuel Johnson — "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

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