Quotemeal: May. 25th, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

"I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."
— Jim Elliot

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"The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return."
— Sundar Singh —
"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 —
"It is the acknowledgment of our humanity and our frailness that places us in a position to have a personal encounter with the living God."
— Os Hillman —
"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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Illustration of Jim Elliot — "I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."

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