Quotemeal: May. 23rd, 1950

Tuesday, May 23, 1950

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."
— François de Sales

More Quotemeal

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C. S. Lewis
"No man is free who is a slave to the flesh."
Seneca
"The future is purchased at the price of vision in the present."
"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."

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Illustration of François de Sales — "It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.