Quotemeal for Friday, December 5, 2003

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it with legalism and forgetting that it is first and foremost a work of the heart. Reducing it to a set of rules trivializes the purpose of purity and creates a veneer of purity without the genuine, underlying character."

— David Edwards

More Quotemeal

"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God."

— Thomas Chalmers —

"We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach."

— Brooke Foss Wescott —

"If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables,....."

— Madame Jeanne Guyon —