Quotemeal: Feb. 21st, 1957

Thursday, February 21, 1957

"Men love to be encouraged by false hopes; the world is full of quack remedies for sin."
— J. Gresham Machen

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"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."
— Warren G. Harding —
"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God."
— C. S. Lewis —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath."
— David Brainerd —

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Illustration of J. Gresham Machen — "Men love to be encouraged by false hopes; the world is full of quack remedies for sin."

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