Quotemeal: Oct. 23rd, 1961

Monday, October 23, 1961

"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
— Frederick Buechner

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"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath."
— Thomas Watson —
"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."
— Epictetus —
"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up."
— J. Hudson Taylor —

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Illustration of Frederick Buechner — "Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."

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