Quotemeal for Tuesday, January 24, 2023

"Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone."

— Oswald Chambers

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— Martin Luther —

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

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— John Newton —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —