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

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."

— Corrie ten Boom —

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."

— Thornton Wilder —

"It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found..."

— George Eliot —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —