Quotemeal: Aug. 15th, 1959

Saturday, August 15, 1959

"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
— Blaise Pascal

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"Real authority is the power to serve."
— Dick McMullen —
"Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights."
— Ronald Reagan —
"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children."
— Frederick Denison Maurice —

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Illustration of Blaise Pascal — "We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

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