Quotemeal: Aug. 15th, 1955

Monday, August 15, 1955

"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
— Blaise Pascal

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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo —
"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."
— J. H. Jowett —
"The gospel is so simple that simple children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches."
— Charles Hodge —
"An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand."
— A. W. Tozer —

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Illustration of Blaise Pascal — "We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

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