Quotemeal for Friday, December 5, 1947

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it with legalism and forgetting that it is first and foremost a work of the heart. Reducing it to a set of rules trivializes the purpose of purity and creates a veneer of purity without the genuine, underlying character."

— David Edwards

More Quotemeal

"A godly mind prizes honor above worldly good."

— Rembrandt —

"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."

— Roger Williams —

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."

— Robert Louis Stevenson —