Quotemeal: May. 23rd, 2019

Thursday, May 23, 2019

"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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"Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him."
— Ezra Taft Benson —
"Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list."
— Stan Michalski —
"If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found."
— Thomas Merton —
"Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you."
— George Mueller —

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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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