Quotemeal: Jan. 9th, 1957

Wednesday, January 9, 1957

"No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."
— H. A. Ironside

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"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
— Leo Tolstoy —
"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises . . . leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

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Illustration of H. A. Ironside — "No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."

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