Quotemeal for Monday, December 5, 1955

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it with legalism and forgetting that it is first and foremost a work of the heart. Reducing it to a set of rules trivializes the purpose of purity and creates a veneer of purity without the genuine, underlying character."

— David Edwards

More Quotemeal

"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."

— Walter Hilton —

"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."

— Oswald Chambers —

"I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself."

— John Newton —

"The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and..."

— Oswald Chambers —