Quotemeal: Aug. 31st, 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

"Nothing can be said so clearly as to preclude the possibility of it being misunderstood."
— Philipp Melanchthon

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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 —
"God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch our converts."
— F. Lincicome —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
— William Barclay —

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Illustration of Philipp Melanchthon — "Nothing can be said so clearly as to preclude the possibility of it being misunderstood."

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