Thought for the Day 16 March 2010

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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They alone are able truly to enjoy this world, who begin with the world unseen. They alone enjoy it, who have first abstained from it. They alone can truly feast, who have first fasted; they alone are able to use the world, who have learned not to abuse it; they alone inherit it, who take it as a shadow of the world to come, and who for that world to come relinquish it.

From the sermon ‘The Cross of Christ the Measure of the World’ (1841) Click here for the full text (leaves site)