Quotemeal: Sep. 8th, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

"A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God cannot be perfected without adversity."
— Author Unknown

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"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."
— Mark Aulson —
"Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, though reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action."
— John Mackay —
"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
— Blaise Pascal —
"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."
— Abraham Joshua Heschel —

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Illustration of Author Unknown — "A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God cannot be perfected without adversity."

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