Quotemeal: Nov. 27th, 1954

Saturday, November 27, 1954

"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."
— Simone Weil

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"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"No man is free who is a slave to the flesh."
— Seneca —
"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."
— Charles Hedge —
"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after."
— Thomas Fuller —

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Illustration of Simone Weil — "Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."

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