Quotemeal: Jan. 21st, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010

"When life caves in, you do not need reasons — you need comfort. You do not need some answers — you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation — He comes to us with His presence."
— Bob Benson

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"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility."
— John Climacus —
"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially formed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
— C. S. Lewis —
"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed round our incompleteness ..."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
"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 Bob Benson — "When life caves in, you do not need reasons — you need comfort. You do not need some answers — you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation — He comes to us with His presence."

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