Quotemeal: May. 23rd, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2011

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."
— Lesslie Newbigin

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"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with."
— Thomas Fuller —
"That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly."
— John Owen —
"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand."
— Bodie Thoene —

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Illustration of Lesslie Newbigin — "To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."

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