Quotemeal: Aug. 11th, 1960

Thursday, August 11, 1960

"Everybody wants justice - for someone else."
— Bruce Cockburn

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"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
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— Polycarp —
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— Max Lucado —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Bruce Cockburn — "Everybody wants justice - for someone else."

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