Quotemeal: Apr. 16th, 1957

Tuesday, April 16, 1957

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."
— Frederick Buechner

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"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."
— Walter Hilton —
"If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns."
— Author Unknown —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"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 Frederick Buechner — "The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

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