Quotemeal: Dec. 5th, 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

"The refiner is never very far from the mouth of the furnace when His gold is in the fire."
— Charles H. Spurgeon

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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard —
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"We profess that we know God, but by works we deny Him; for beatitude doth not consist in the knowledge of divine things, but in a divine life, for the devils..."
— Sir Walter Raleigh —
"It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really knows he cannot pay his debt will be forever paying it."
— G. K. Chesterton —

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Illustration of Charles H. Spurgeon — "The refiner is never very far from the mouth of the furnace when His gold is in the fire."

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