Quotemeal for Wednesday, December 5, 2007

"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

"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life."

— Eugene Peterson —

"A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself."

— Hans Kung —

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there...."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —