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

"It's great to be young and dream the dream, but it's better to be old and to see that the dream is true!"

— John Osteen —

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

— Leo Tolstoy —

"The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not."

— C. S. Lewis —

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —