Quotemeal: Jul. 23rd, 1963

Tuesday, July 23, 1963

"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

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"All earthly delights are but "streams." But God is the ocean."
— Jonathan Edwards —
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved."
— Henri Nouwen —

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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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