Quotemeal: May. 8th, 2006

Monday, May 8, 2006

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen

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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
— William James —
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— Walter Chantry —
"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck blackberries."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
"We cannot live with bitterness because it will first manifest itself in our spirit, then in our emotions, and finally in our bodies."
— Tom Drout —

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Illustration of John Owen — "If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

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