Quotemeal: Aug. 13th, 1954

Friday, August 13, 1954

"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."
— Thomas Morell

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"Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy..."
— Susanna Wesley —
"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"If a man cannot be a Christian where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"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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Illustration of Thomas Morell — "The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."

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