Quotemeal: Apr. 28th, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

"To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills."
— St. Ambrose

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"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."
— W. R. Inge —
"The Christian's hope for the future must have a sanctifying influence upon the present."
— D. Edmond Hiebert —
"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."
— John Stott —
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
— Emerson —

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Illustration

Illustration of St. Ambrose — "To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills."

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