Quotemeal: Jul. 23rd, 2003

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

"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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"Learn to say "no." It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"He prayed for his enemies, and you do not even pray for your friends."
— Johann Arndt —
"A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him."
— Lyof N. Tolstoy —
"The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."
— Michael Ramsey —

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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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