Quotemeal: Aug. 15th, 1963

Thursday, August 15, 1963

"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
— Blaise Pascal

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"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."
— J. H. Jowett —
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— Gordon McDonald —
"If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found."
— Thomas Merton —
"When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place we would rather not go."
— Brennan Manning —

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Illustration of Blaise Pascal — "We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

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