Quotemeal for 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

More Quotemeal

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime."

— Martin Luther —

"Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Why do so many people have struggles when it comes to prayer? ... Men and women were originally created to desire communion with God. But the effects of sin..."

— Gordon McDonald —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —