“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
― Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. ”
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“We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations. ”
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“Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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