Quotemeal for Thursday, December 5, 2019

"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

"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world."

— Mother Teresa —

"When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope."

— Yazid Ibrahim —

"Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works."

— John Calvin —

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —