Quotemeal: Nov. 17th, 1955

Thursday, November 17, 1955

"Our new cultural postmodern credo for avoiding sin is, "Hurt no one and do what you please." ... I much prefer Augustine's credo for avoiding sin: "Love God and do what you please.""
— Calvin Miller

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"Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?"
— Martin Luther —
"The future is as bright as the promises of God."
— Adoniram Judson —
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C. S. Lewis —
"God writes straight with crooked lines."
— Spanish Proverb —

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Illustration of Calvin Miller — "Our new cultural postmodern credo for avoiding sin is, "Hurt no one and do what you please." ... I much prefer Augustine's credo for avoiding sin: "Love God and do what you please.""

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