Quotemeal: Aug. 23rd, 2025

Saturday, August 23, 2025

"There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less."
— Philip Yancey

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"If the blind put their hand in God's they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."
— Helen Keller —
"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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— Emil Brunner —
"Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit."
— S. D. Gordon —

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Illustration of Philip Yancey — "There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less."

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