Quotemeal: Aug. 29th, 2002

Thursday, August 29, 2002

"The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."
— Michael Ramsey

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"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility."
— John Climacus —
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— Charles H. Spurgeon —
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— Robert L. Short —
"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 Michael Ramsey — "The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."

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