Quotes of the day
The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm's-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.
( James H. Aughey)
Holiness consists of three things--separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ's image. It is in vain that we talk about the last, unless we know something experimentally about the first.
( James H. Aughey)
Let us acknowledge that conflicts between law and grace do not arise except when men refuse to accept God's saving suggestions. And as for the relation of the philanthropic motive to the eternal motive -- what is more eternal than love for men? What is more divine than the anxiety to give others rest, opportunity, the spiritual life? If Ex. xxiii, 12, does not breathe the love of a righteous God for lost souls, what scripture breathes it? To keep the Sabbath for men's sake, that they may keep it, is to keep it for God's sake. The Sabbath was made for man, and, to the eye of faith, God was made flesh for man. (A. H. Lewis, Spiritual Sabbathism)