Quotemeal: Mar. 29th, 2008

Saturday, March 29, 2008

"The kingdom of heaven is not for the well meaning but for the desperate."
— James Denney

More Quotemeal

"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
— Epictetus —
"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."
— Oswald Chambers —
"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."
— John Tillotson —
"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."
— John Stott —

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Illustration of James Denney — "The kingdom of heaven is not for the well meaning but for the desperate."

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