Quotemeal: Aug. 21st, 1958

Thursday, August 21, 1958

"Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it you are bound forever to the Giver, and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like, Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give."
— E. Stanley Jones

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"As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them."
— Charles H Spurgeon —
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— Epictetus —
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— James Dobson —
"Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love — time is eternity."
— Henry van Dyke —

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Illustration of E. Stanley Jones — "Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it you are bound forever to the Giver, and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like, Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give."

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