Quotemeal: Apr. 16th, 2006

Sunday, April 16, 2006

"God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find Him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear to God."
— Ron Hansen

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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 —
"Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world."
— Thomas Traherne —
"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining...."
— Gordon McDonald —
"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."
— John Donne —

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Illustration of Ron Hansen — "God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find Him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear to God."

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