Quotemeal: Jul. 12th, 2008

Saturday, July 12, 2008

"It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in longing for the things that are not his."
— Bernard of Clairvaux

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"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
— Epictetus —
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— Brother Lawrence —
"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."
— John Tillotson —
"Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility."
— Larry Burkett —

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Illustration of Bernard of Clairvaux — "It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in longing for the things that are not his."

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