Quotemeal: Mar. 30th, 1956

Friday, March 30, 1956

"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
— Johannes Eckhart

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"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."
— Rossetti —
"For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite..."
— John Baillie —
"The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us."
— John Owen —

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Illustration of Johannes Eckhart — "If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."

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