Quotemeal: Jul. 21st, 1955

Thursday, July 21, 1955

"Your heart is not the compass that God steers by."
— Samuel Rutherford

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"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
— Epictetus —
"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 —
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
— Plutarch —
"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Samuel Rutherford — "Your heart is not the compass that God steers by."

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