Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 2008

Thursday, September 4, 2008

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens

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"Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""
— Francis of Sales —
"A Christian must keep the faith, but not to himself."
— Jim Patrick —
"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning."
— Emil Brunner —

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Illustration of Charles Dickens — "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

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