Quotemeal for Sunday, May 10, 1942

"Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer."

— Charles H. Brent

More Quotemeal

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

— Billy Sunday —

"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

— Thomas Hardy —

"Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there."

— Catherine of Siena —

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own..."

— J. I. Packer —