Quotemeal: Dec. 6th, 1954

Monday, December 6, 1954

"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."
— John Stott

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"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away."
— C. S. Lewis —
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"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."
— A. J. Gossip —

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Illustration of John Stott — "We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.