Quotemeal: Dec. 12th, 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019

"When purity is reduced to legalism, our hearts are no longer free; they are focused more on maintaining rituals and customs than on living out a genuine character change."
— David Edwards

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"Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?"
— Martin Luther —
"The church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it."
— Jerome —
"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."
— Henry Emerson Fosdick —
"He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays."
— John Owen —

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Illustration of David Edwards — "When purity is reduced to legalism, our hearts are no longer free; they are focused more on maintaining rituals and customs than on living out a genuine character change."

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