Quotemeal: Oct. 7th, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

"A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else."
— Max Lucado

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"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."
— John of the Cross —
"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck blackberries."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after."
— Thomas Fuller —
"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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Illustration of Max Lucado — "A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else."

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