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

"Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God."

— Max Lucado —

"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially formed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."

— C. S. Lewis —

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right..."

— Lesslie Newbigin —

"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."

— J. I. Packer —