Quotemeal: Jan. 23rd, 1958

Thursday, January 23, 1958

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"
— A. J. Gossip

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— J. Gresham Machen —
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
— John Wooden —
"Be faithful in the little practices of love which will build in you the life of holiness and make you Christlike."
— Mother Teresa —
"Men can heal lust. Angels can heal malice. God alone can cure pride."
— John Climacus —

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Illustration of A. J. Gossip — "We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

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