Quotemeal for Tuesday, July 8, 1958

"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning."

— Emil Brunner

More Quotemeal

"If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead."

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension,..."

— J. C. Ryle —

"Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but...."

— Charles H. Brent —