Quotemeal: Jul. 1st, 1955

Friday, July 1, 1955

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
— Frederick Ward Kates

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"Over the long run, love's power to forgive is stronger than hate's power to get even."
— Lewis B. Smedes —
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"Christians are not men and women who are hoping for salvation, but those who have experienced it."
— M. Lloyd-Jones —
"The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him."
— William McGill —

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Illustration of Frederick Ward Kates — "The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

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