Quotemeal for Monday, January 24, 1955

"Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone."

— Oswald Chambers

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— John Henry Newman —

"The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return."

— Sundar Singh —

"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 —

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that....."

— C. S. Lewis —