Quotemeal for Thursday, August 7, 1947

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt."

— Richard S. Emrich

More Quotemeal

"When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place we would rather not go."

— Brennan Manning —

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."

— William Gurnall —

"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."

— John Tillotson —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —