Quotemeal for Thursday, October 9, 1952

"God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."

— George Müller

More Quotemeal

"I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved."

— Polycarp —

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

— Edward John Phelps —

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck blackberries."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —

"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 —