Quotemeal for 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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— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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"If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?"

— Blaise Pascal —

"The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new..."

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