Quotemeal: May. 8th, 1960

Sunday, May 8, 1960

"We can love the world, or love God. If we love the world, there will be no room in our heart for the love of God. We cannot love both God, who is eternal, and the world, which is transitory."
— St. Augustine of Hippo

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"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit."
— A. W. Tozer —
"Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us."
— Oswald Chambers —
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
— G. K. Chesterton —

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Illustration of St. Augustine of Hippo — "We can love the world, or love God. If we love the world, there will be no room in our heart for the love of God. We cannot love both God, who is eternal, and the world, which is transitory."

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