Quotemeal: Mar. 30th, 2004

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
— Johannes Eckhart

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"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and....."
— Thomas Brooks —
"There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it."
— Charles Hedge —
"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after."
— Thomas Fuller —

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Illustration of Johannes Eckhart — "If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."

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