Quotemeal for Friday, July 25, 1958

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars."

— Thomas à Kempis

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— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."

— Charles Hedge —

"The Church is a society of sinners - the only society in the world in which membership is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be..."

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