Quotemeal: Jun. 5th, 2025

Thursday, June 5, 2025

"God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before."
— Otto Dibelius

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"God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life."
— John Ortberg —
"God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch our converts."
— F. Lincicome —
"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."
— John Tillotson —
"The reason that most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."
— Robert J. McKain —

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Illustration of Otto Dibelius — "God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before."

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