Quotemeal: Dec. 19th, 1956

Wednesday, December 19, 1956

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.||"
— C. S. Lewis

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"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"The devil does not sleep, nor is the flesh yet dead; therefore, you must never cease your preparation for battle, because on the right and the left are enemies...."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."
— John Owen —
"There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
— G. K. Chesterton —

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Illustration of C. S. Lewis — "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.||"

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