Quotemeal for 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

More Quotemeal

"Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you — in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be."

— Anne Ortlund —

"Man does not rule over evil except when he refuses to do it. When he has truly done evil, he is its servant."

— Hildegard of Bingen —

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves...."

— Richard S. Emrich —

"The Christian life isn't difficult — it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we...."

— Joseph Garlingen —