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 human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."
— Jim Elliot —
"Victory is the place where our breaking point becomes our turning point."
— L. Burt —
"Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve."
— Douglas Groothuis —

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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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