Quotemeal: Jul. 1st, 1947

Tuesday, July 1, 1947

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
— Frederick Ward Kates

More Quotemeal

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
— Cicero —
"Best of all is, God is with us."
— John Wesley —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him."
— Jack Graham —

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Illustration of Frederick Ward Kates — "The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

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