Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 2008

Thursday, January 3, 2008

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

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"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Why do so many people have struggles when it comes to prayer? ... Men and women were originally created to desire communion with God. But the effects of sin..."
— Gordon McDonald —
"There's nothing like a good crisis to increase my energy and remind me how much I need God."
— Anne Christian Buchanan —
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
— Seneca —

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

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A Year with Jesus
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'Beyond 'a Rock and a Hard Place''
"Dear Disciple, Nearly every one of My leaders through the ages has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm talking about being in a situation..."
Praying with Paul
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'Our Great High Priest' (He. 4:14-5:6)
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Daily Wisdom
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James 5:12
"Above all, my brothers, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, or you will be condemned."

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