Quotemeal: Jul. 22nd, 1960

Friday, July 22, 1960

"We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."
— Brother Lawrence

More Quotemeal

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
Plutarch
"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."
J. I. Packer

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Illustration of Brother Lawrence — "We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.