Quotemeal: Oct. 6th, 2019

Sunday, October 6, 2019

"We fear the search for who we are. Perhaps because we're afraid that having located our true souls, we might not like ourselves that much. So, we shrink to step across the threshold to our inner selves and invite God in. ... But no matter how we love the love the busy world of our relationships, the fast-action theater of our noisy and hurried lives at last empties out. Then we find ourselves in lonely cells of bulky silence that compels us to turn from the outer things and face our inner selves — and our mighty God."
— Calvin Miller

More Quotemeal

"Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders."
F. W.Faber
"For Christ is the God over all, who has arranged to wash away sin from mankind, rendering the old man new."
Hippolytus
"It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.""
St. Ambrose
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow."
Theodore Epp

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Illustration of Calvin Miller — "We fear the search for who we are. Perhaps because we're afraid that having located our true souls, we might not like ourselves that much. So, we shrink to step across the threshold to our inner selves and invite God in. ... But no matter how we love the love the busy world of our relationships, the fast-action theater of our noisy and hurried lives at last empties out. Then we find ourselves in lonely cells of bulky silence that compels us to turn from the outer things and face our inner selves — and our mighty God."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.