Quotemeal: Nov. 27th, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."
— Simone Weil

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"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life, but has also spoken for us by his death."
— Søren Kierkegaard —
"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Many things I have tried to grasp, and have lost. That which I have placed in God's hands I still have."
— Martin Luther —
"We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master."
— J. I. Packer —

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Illustration of Simone Weil — "Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."

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