Quotemeal: Dec. 17th, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

"It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world."
— John Calvin

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"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk."
— Francis of Assisi —
"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."
— John Owen —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
— Corrie ten Boom —

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Illustration of John Calvin — "It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world."

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