"We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a ...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call ...
~ Madeleine L'Engle ~












In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,...
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