Quotemeal: May. 23rd, 1999

Sunday, May 23, 1999

"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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"Worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable."
— John Stott —
"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."
— Henri Nouwen —
"Don't trust to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting."
— Hammer William Webb-Peploe —
"Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship."
— Douglas Horton —

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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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