Scripture Text: Matthew 5:13-16

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

But of all the things that are necessary to the life of man, nothing is more useful than salt and sunshine.

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace

If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.

George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans), Middle March

For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone

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