Quotemeal: Aug. 19th, 1958

Tuesday, August 19, 1958

"Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."
— Jeremiah Burroughs

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"But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea."
— William Langford —
"Our work here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like a shadow."
— Clare of Assisi —
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning."
— Emil Brunner —

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Illustration of Jeremiah Burroughs — "Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."

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