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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"I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved."
— Polycarp —
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— John Chrysostom —
"In the New Testament it is the work and not the workers that is glorified."
— Alfred Plummer —
"The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't."
— Phillips Brooks —

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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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