Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 1959

Thursday, April 9, 1959

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."
— John of the Cross

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"Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects."
— J. Gustav White —
"An undivided heart, which worships God alone and trusts him as it should, is raised above all anxiety for earthly wants."
— J. C. Geikie —
"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."
— Billy Graham —
"Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him."
— Jack Graham —

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

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