Quotemeal: Aug. 8th, 2016

Monday, August 8, 2016

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."
— Epictetus

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"The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."
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— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"I have learned that what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
— Author Unknown —
"Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God."
— Bonaventure —

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Illustration of Epictetus — "If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

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