Quotemeal: Aug. 29th, 1958

Friday, August 29, 1958

"The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."
— Michael Ramsey

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Illustration of Michael Ramsey — "The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."

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