Quotemeal for Sunday, August 7, 2011

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt."

— Richard S. Emrich

More Quotemeal

"No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."

— H. A. Ironside —

"Preaching should break a hard heart and heal a broken one."

— John Newton —

"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and..."

— Thomas Merton —

"Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. ..."

— Charles Swindoll —