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 Bunyan —

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"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."

— John of the Cross —

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