Quotemeal for Thursday, July 23, 1959

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

— Charles F. Banning

More Quotemeal

"God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places... He comes in surprising ways."

— Henry Gariepy —

"If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving..."

— C. S. Lewis —

"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had..."

— Robert L. Short —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —