Quotemeal: Jul. 9th, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."
— Rossetti

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"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"Those who pursue the way of faith and absolute abandonment have neither relish nor liberty for any other path; all else constrains and embarrasses them."
— Madame Guyon —
"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."
— Thomas à Kempis —

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Illustration of Rossetti — "Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."

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