Quotemeal for Monday, July 8, 2002

"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning."

— Emil Brunner

More Quotemeal

"No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."

"The devil does not sleep, nor is the flesh yet dead; therefore, you must never cease your preparation for battle, because on the right and the left are enemies...."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —