Quotemeal: Feb. 17th, 1961

Friday, February 17, 1961

"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."
— Warren G. Harding

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"Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead."
— John Ruskin —
"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it....."
— David Edwards —
"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked...."
— Catherine Marshall —
"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Warren G. Harding — "Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."

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Praying with Paul
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'The Giver' (Jn. 4:10)
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'Your Faithfulness Surrounds You!' (Ps. 89:8-9)
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What Jesus Did!
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'The Gamble' (Mt. 27:35-37)
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