Quotemeal for Saturday, January 5, 2008

"The real danger of legalism is that it produces a sense of attainment that short-circuits our call to live the life of Yes thorugh Christ. Self-achievement brings a false sense of assurance that somehow we can live a pure life in our own ability. This attitude ultimately leads us to cut ourselves off from the heart of God and, in turn, to deny our true identity in Christ."

— David Edwards

More Quotemeal

"He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

— J. H. Jowett —

"God meets me everywhere, or I never meet Him. If I think I meet Him only in Bible and Sacrament, and in the Christian fellowship, then I do not know who it is I..."

— M. A. C. Warren —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —