Quotemeal: Jul. 23rd, 2003

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."
— Charles F. Banning

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"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
— Samuel Johnson —
"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."
— John Donne —
"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."
— Mother Teresa —

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Illustration of Charles F. Banning — "Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

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