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

More Quotemeal

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen —
"God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch our converts."
— F. Lincicome —
"I invite you to reach out in love to a needy child and give that boy or girl something valuable — love and hope."
— Patty Anglin —
"Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life."

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