Quotemeal: Aug. 8th, 2002

Thursday, August 8, 2002

"Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God."
— Carter Lindberg

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"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."
— Thomas à Kempis —
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— Oswald Chambers —
"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 —
"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
— G. K. Chesterton —

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Illustration of Carter Lindberg — "Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God."

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