Quotemeal: Nov. 11th, 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."
— St. Augustine of Hippo

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"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."
— Calvin Coolidge —
"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 —
"It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and...."
— Glenn Olds —
"Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence."
— A. W. Tozer —

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Illustration of St. Augustine of Hippo — "God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."

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Proverbs 10:12
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Morning & Evening
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