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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine of Hippo |
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WHAT DO I LOVE WHEN I LOVE MY GOD?
What is it then that I love when I love you? Not bodily beauty, and not temporal glory, not the clear shining light, lovely as it is to our eyes, not the sweet melodies of many-moded songs, not the soft smell of flowers and ointments and perfumes, not manna and honey, not limbs made for the body’s embrace, not these do I love when I love my God.
Yet I do love a certain light, a certain voice, a certain odor, a certain food, a certain embrace when I love my God: a light, a voice, an odor, a food, an embrace for the man within me, where his light, which no embrace can contain, floods into my soul; where he utters words that time does not speed away; where he sends forth an aroma that no wind can scatter; where he provides food that no eating can lessen; where he so clings that satiety does not sunder us. This is what I love when I love my God.
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) |
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Run, John, Run, the Law demands
And gives me neither feet nor hands
Far better news the Gospel brings
It bids me fly and gives me wings!
John Bunyan |
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
G.K. Chesterton |
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
"The Problem of Pain" C.S. Lewis |
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When the train goes through a tunnel and the world gets dark, do you jump out? Of course not. You sit still and trust the engineer to get you through.
Corrie Ten Boom |
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That which will make us most happy when we possess it, will make us most joyful when we meditate upon it
Richard Baxter |
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The church grows by tears and withers by smiles. God's vine thrives better for the pruning He gives it.
Stephen Charnock |
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