Quotemeal: May. 16th, 2009

Saturday, May 16, 2009

"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton

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"To follow the Savior is to participate in salvation, to follow the light is to perceive the light."
— Irenaeus —
"Never let mistakes or wrong directions, of which every man falls into many, discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding where we were..."
— Thomas Carlyle —
"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."
— John Owen —
"If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found."
— Thomas Merton —

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Illustration of John Milton — "We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."

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