Quotemeal: Sep. 17th, 1947

Wednesday, September 17, 1947

"We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding."
— Calvin Miller

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"Jesus was God spelling himself out in language humanity could understand."
— S. D. Gordon —
"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
— Johannes Eckhart —
"Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint, and he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is."
— Blaise Pascal —
"I only know this, that if He had not sought me out, I would never have come to Him."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Calvin Miller — "We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding."

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