Quotemeal for Thursday, August 20, 1959

"Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple."

— St. Gregory the Great

More Quotemeal

"If I am not [in a state of grace], God bring me there; if I am, God keep me there!"

— Joan of Arc —

"The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible."

— Henry van Dyke —

"The loving service which God sends His people into the world to render includes both evangelism and social action, for each is in itself an authentic expression..."

— John R. W. Stott —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —