Quotemeal: Sep. 1st, 2007

Saturday, September 1, 2007

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"[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 more and more attention, more and more power, more and more material assets. The seductions of the public life would have led to a competitive posture, but the original call to commitment from within spoke louder."
— Gordon McDonald

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"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."
— Thomas Fuller —
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."
— Victor Hugo —
"But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea."
— William Langford —
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
— Abraham Lincoln —

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Illustration of Gordon McDonald — "[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 more and more attention, more and more power, more and more material assets. The seductions of the public life would have led to a competitive posture, but the original call to commitment from within spoke louder."

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