Quotemeal: Sep. 24th, 1961

Sunday, September 24, 1961

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."
— Mark Finley

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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
— Cicero —
"If we spread the gospel, Jesus will spread the salvation."
— Juha Räihä —
"What is the Church if not the assembly of all the saints?"
— Nicetas —
"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 Mark Finley — "We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

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