Quotemeal: Jul. 23rd, 2011

Saturday, July 23, 2011

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."
— Charles F. Banning

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"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."
— Edwin Keith —
"If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?"
— Herrik Johnson —
"If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is...."
— A. W. Tozer —
"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Charles F. Banning — "Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

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