Quotemeal: Jul. 31st, 2022

Sunday, July 31, 2022

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."
— J. I. Packer

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"Christ demands that the driving force in your life must be love. All other things, although important, are secondary. Love is the sign of true discipleship."
— Solly Ozrovech —
"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."
— John Chrysostom —
"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 —
"The stream of spontaneous acts of Godly kindness carries us to the sea of contentment and peace."
— Constance Hurst-Howard —

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Illustration of J. I. Packer — "Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."

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