Quotemeal: Dec. 12th, 2003

Friday, December 12, 2003

"When purity is reduced to legalism, our hearts are no longer free; they are focused more on maintaining rituals and customs than on living out a genuine character change."
— David Edwards

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"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."
— Mark Aulson —
"He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself."
— Montaigne —
"Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant."
— Martin Luther —
"There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now."
— Henry Ward Beecher —

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Illustration of David Edwards — "When purity is reduced to legalism, our hearts are no longer free; they are focused more on maintaining rituals and customs than on living out a genuine character change."

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