Quotemeal: Apr. 23rd, 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

"Real authority is the power to serve."
— Dick McMullen

More Quotemeal

"The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God."
— Blaise Pascal —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"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 —
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
— Jim Elliot —

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Illustration

Illustration of Dick McMullen — "Real authority is the power to serve."

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