Quotemeal: Jul. 23rd, 1959

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

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
— Albert Einstein —
"If we really think that home is elsewhere, and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,' why should I not look forward to the arrival?"
— C. S. Lewis —
"Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus."
— Samuel Rutherford —
"He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
— John Piper —

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Illustration of Charles F. Banning — "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."

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