Quotemeal: May. 8th, 2014

Thursday, May 8, 2014

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen

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"You cannot go on being a good egg forever. You must either hatch or rot."
— C. S. Lewis —
"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be."
— Thomas Wilson —
"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."
— Armin Gesswein —

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Illustration of John Owen — "If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

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